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What was the Gildad Age

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Americans embraced capitalism, industrial strength and invention. Everything gets bigger.

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When was the Gildad Age

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1877-1895

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What is capitalism

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taking a seed and investing it in another business/good idea/stock market and hoping that seed will grow more money. An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

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Who invented the evolutionary theory

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Charles Darwin

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What was Darwin’s book

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Origin of the species

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Who is capitalism regulated by

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The people

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What are some benefits of capitalism

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it will keep prices lower because business’s will compete to have the lowest price, which attracts more customers to make a profit. It also makes quality better because the consumers have choice on who they want to purchase from

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Who created the concept of Social Darwinism and what was the phrase he invented

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Herbert spencer

Survival of the fittest

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What material becomes cheap and popular and becomes the first skyscraper

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Steel

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What is the term for skyscraper cities

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Vertical city

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What process showed men and women what was in style

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Advertising

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For the first time, during the Gildad age, the USA was seen as an

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Industrial power

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What invention prevents meat from going bad

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Refrigerated mail car

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What goes national for the first time

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Music

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What did the Gilder age cause racially?

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Many immigrants came and America became a melting pot

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Which two men wrote a book that gave the Gilder Age it’s name

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Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

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Who were the presidents during the Gilder Age

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Rutherford B Hayes
James A. Garfield
Chester Alan Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
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What was Grover Cleveland’s wife and baby daughter named

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Frankie and Ruth

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Who created the Baby Ruth candy bar and who was it named after

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Curtis Candy

Ruth Cleveland

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Which six states were added during whose presidency

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Washington Montana North Dakota South Dakota Wyoming Idaho

Benjamin Harrison

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Why did the rich and poor like the middle class?

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Poor: gave them something to look forward to
Rich: saw it as a cushion from poverty

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In the thirty years between 1860-1890, how many patents were created?

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500,000

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Who invented the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Who invented the electric light and the phonograph

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Thomas Edison

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Where was Bell Born
Scotland
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What did bell want to cure and why
Deafness, his mom was going deaf
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What "first" did bell and his dad create and where did they tour
Lip reading system | UK
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What strange invention did Bell create as a boy that could make sounds
Dummy head
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What were dead people considered to be
Retarded
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When he moved to the New World, where did Bell settle
Canada
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Where is the epicenter of deaf schools
Boston
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What other "firsts" did Bell create
Amplified Piano | Amplified Speaker
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Who was bells most famous student
Blind and deaf student Helen Keller
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What did Bell experiment with that could transmit sound
Harmonic telegraph
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Why doesn't bell immediately patent his "harmonic telegraph" in the US?
There was a huge industrial revolution in Great Britain and if he patented there first it would be more successful. Britain might not patent it if America already has.
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Who was the inventor with a completely different technology applied for a patent the exact same day that would carry sound across wire, but his used water.
Elisha Gray
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What was the bell and his patent attorneys show up for a patent on the first telephone in the United States
February 1876:
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Who was the patent officer famous for being a poor manager of files. It's not clear to him who applied for the patent first. The debate begins.
Zenas Wilber
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Why did Bell end up getting the patent instead of gray?
Bells lead attorney was a civil war general who fought in the same unit as Wilber. Bell gets the patent
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First message over the telephone, spoken by bell to his manager
Mr. Watson, come quickly I need you.
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Who was bells assistant that heard the first words heard over the human voice telephone
Mr. Watson
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Who gets in an electrical war with Thomas Edison because he stole his ideas
George Westinghouse
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employee of Edison who outdid him and invented the radio, remote control, and wifi.
Nikola Tesla
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Who did Bell ask to patent his telephone and how much did he ask for? What was their response
Western Union Company 100,000 They laughed and blew the opportunity
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Who was the biggest telegraph company in the world
Western union company
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Where did bell take his telephone invention and make lots of money
Philedelphia
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Who patented Bells telephone and how much was it eventually worth?
Bell patented his own invention and it was worth 25 million
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What was the company that Bell created called
Bell Laboratories (Bell Labs)
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What were some inventions that Bell labs made
Hydrofoil and airplane improvements
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What was Thomas Edison known as
The wizard of Menlo Park
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What was Edison's famous idea that he made to steal other ideas
Think tank
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Who invented the tinker tape machine? And what did it do?
Thomas Edison revolutionary in the sense that is is building on the telegraph. Instead of sending beeps and dashes, it sends a message that is translated into written word and sends it.
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What is a think tank
is when you get the brightest minds together and all tinker to come up with a good idea
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Who invented the phonograph
Thomas Edison
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What did phonographs do
They played music and famous peoples voices.
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What did people play oh phonographs
People bought records that have speeches of presidents, dance beats, or orchestral or choral musi
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Who was the first movie producer and what did he invent
Thomas Edison | Edison also invented the motion picture camera, film, and projectors
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Why were records invented
To sell phonographs
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Who produced the first movie and what was it called and what year
Thomas Edison 1903 | The Great train Robbery
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What was significant about the great train robbery
They filmed a real train
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What were flickering silent movies called
Flicks
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Why was the crowds response to the first movie
Fear, crying, high emotion
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Who was the biggest financial backer of Edison for his electrical light
JP Morgan
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Who invented the nickel alkaline battery?
Edison
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What was the filament that worked in the electric lightbulb and how long did it burn
Carbonized cardboard | 300 hours
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Who invented Wall Street
JP MORGAN
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Whose home was the demonstration of the lightbulb in
JP Morgan
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What years did Edison build transformers and in what district
1880-1882 | Manhatten
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Official date that part of New York lit up
September 4, 1882
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Advantages of the light:
later work days shift), less gas fires, people can stay out later and it is safer. Restaurants can keep open later. More jobs
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what other places did Edison light up?
amusement parks and fairs because the common people could afford them
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What other district did Edison light up
Financial district in Great Britain
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What was the elephant who was killed name and what did it supposedly do
Topsy Out of control Trampled humans
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Where was Topsy killed and how
Coney Island amusement park | Electricity
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Why was Topsy killed
To show the public the "benefits" of electricity
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Who and his wife were terrified of electricity and wouldn't touch the switch so they slept with the lights on.
Benjamin Harrison
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When did the whitehouse get electricity
1891
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Where did the first public demonstration of electricity take place
Wall Street
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Who were the electricity wars between?
Thomas Edison verses George Westinghouse

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