Pages 102-117

Question 1

Iron to steel

Answer 1

1855, Sir Henry Bessemer; Bessemer process.

Question 2

Iron Ore from Lake Superior

Answer 2

To Chicago or Pittsburgh; coal from Pennsylvania and WV. Became largest industry.

Question 3

Corn Flakes

Answer 3

First “instant breakfast”. 1880s

Question 4

Chain stores

Answer 4

F.W. Woolworth and J.C. Penny, 1880s and 1890s

Question 5

Aaron Montgomery Ward

Answer 5

Mail-order for rural Americans to buy factor goods; started 1872. Compitition from Sears, Roebuck and Co

Question 6

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 6

Railroads. Tatics to make other people go out of business.

Question 7

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 7

Oil industry

Question 8

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 8

Steel

Question 9

Oil

Answer 9

1855; way to refine it into petroleum.

Question 10

Otis’s elevators

Answer 10

mid-1850s; at first for freight because they crashed often. Otis developed a safety hoist.

Question 11

Frank J. Sprague

Answer 11

1887, trolley cars with electric motors.

Question 12

Thomas Edison

Answer 12

First incandescent bulb in 1879. 1882, first central power station. 1093 patents

Question 13

Nikola Tesla

Answer 13

1888, developed AC aka alternating current

Question 14

Mark Twain

Answer 14

1835-1910. Aka Samuel Clemens. Raised in Hannibal, Missouri.

Question 15

“Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show”

Answer 15

started 1883 by William F. Cody.

Question 16

Chicago Exposition

Answer 16

1893; seen as world’s first fair.

Question 17

Baseball

Answer 17

by 1900, National and American leagues.

Question 18

Kentucky Derby

Answer 18

First 1875

Question 19

Basketball

Answer 19

Invented 1892

Question 20

1880-1900

Answer 20

9 million immigrants immigrated to the US

Question 21

1900-1920

Answer 21

14.5 million immigrants immigrated to the US. From Poland, Russia, southern Europe (Italy). Italians largest, Jews second.

Question 22

Hull House

Answer 22

Chicago, 1889 by Jane Addams based on “Settlement houses” in England. Taught sewing, English, and other subjects.

Question 23

1849

Answer 23

10,000 Chinese immigrants working on railroad. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, repealed 1943.

Question 24

Homestead Strike

Answer 24

1892. Trade unions formed the American Federation of Labor. Destroyed by going on strike against Carnegie Steel’s Homestead plant.

Question 25

Pullman Strike

Answer 25

1894. Workers had to live in Pullman house and buy stuff at Pullman stores. May 1894 American Railway Union went on strike after they cut wages.

Question 26

Mother Jones

Answer 26

1830-1930. Irish immigrant, worked 50 years as a labor organizer. Lost family to yellow-fever in 1867.

Question 27

Samuel Gompers

Answer 27

1850-1924. Worked as a cigar maker. Helped form American Federation of Labor.

Question 28

Patrons of Husbandry

Answer 28

Aka Grange. Formed 1867 by Oliver Kelley. Thought to open cooperatives to buy supplies and machinery at low cost.

Question 29

Populist Party

Answer 29

1891. Granges and Famers' Alliance formed People's Party of the U.S.A. aka the Populist party.