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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

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Scotland

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What did bell want to cure and why

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Deafness, his mom was going deaf

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What “first” did bell and his dad create and where did they tour

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Lip reading system

UK

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What strange invention did Bell create as a boy that could make sounds

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Dummy head

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What were dead people considered to be

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Retarded

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When he moved to the New World, where did Bell settle

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Canada

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Where is the epicenter of deaf schools

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Boston

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What other “firsts” did Bell create

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Amplified Piano

Amplified Speaker

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Who was bells most famous student

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Blind and deaf student Helen Keller

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What did Bell experiment with that could transmit sound

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Harmonic telegraph

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Why doesn’t bell immediately patent his “harmonic telegraph” in the US?

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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.

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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

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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.

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Zenas Wilber

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Why did Bell end up getting the patent instead of gray?

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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

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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

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Mr. Watson

41
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Who gets in an electrical war with Thomas Edison because he stole his ideas

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George Westinghouse

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employee of Edison who outdid him and invented the radio, remote control, and wifi.

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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

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Western Union Company
100,000
They laughed and blew the opportunity

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Who was the biggest telegraph company in the world

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Western union company

45
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Where did bell take his telephone invention and make lots of money

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Philedelphia

46
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Who patented Bells telephone and how much was it eventually worth?

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Bell patented his own invention and it was worth 25 million

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What was the company that Bell created called

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Bell Laboratories (Bell Labs)

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What were some inventions that Bell labs made

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Hydrofoil and airplane improvements

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What was Thomas Edison known as

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The wizard of Menlo Park

50
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What was Edison’s famous idea that he made to steal other ideas

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Think tank

51
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Who invented the tinker tape machine? And what did it do?

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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

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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

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Thomas Edison

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What did phonographs do

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They played music and famous peoples voices.

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What did people play oh phonographs

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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

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Thomas Edison

Edison also invented the motion picture camera, film, and projectors

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Why were records invented

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To sell phonographs

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Who produced the first movie and what was it called and what year

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Thomas Edison 1903

The Great train Robbery

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What was significant about the great train robbery

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They filmed a real train

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What were flickering silent movies called

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Flicks

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Why was the crowds response to the first movie

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Fear, crying, high emotion

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Who was the biggest financial backer of Edison for his electrical light

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JP Morgan

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Who invented the nickel alkaline battery?

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Edison

64
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What was the filament that worked in the electric lightbulb and how long did it burn

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Carbonized cardboard

300 hours

65
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Who invented Wall Street

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JP MORGAN

66
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Whose home was the demonstration of the lightbulb in

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JP Morgan

67
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What years did Edison build transformers and in what district

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1880-1882

Manhatten

68
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Official date that part of New York lit up

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September 4, 1882

69
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Advantages of the light:

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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?

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amusement parks and fairs because the common people could afford them

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What other district did Edison light up

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Financial district in Great Britain

72
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What was the elephant who was killed name and what did it supposedly do

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Topsy
Out of control
Trampled humans

73
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Where was Topsy killed and how

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Coney Island amusement park

Electricity

74
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Why was Topsy killed

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To show the public the “benefits” of electricity

75
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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.

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Benjamin Harrison

76
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When did the whitehouse get electricity

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1891

77
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Where did the first public demonstration of electricity take place

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Wall Street

78
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Who were the electricity wars between?

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Thomas Edison verses George Westinghouse

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