Social Studies 8H (incomplete)

Question 1

Person of Interest:

Lewis Latimer

Answer 1

Afro-Amer. inventor, who played a key role in improving practical electric writing.

Question 2

Person of Interest:

Thomas Edison

Answer 2

Inventor of the practical electric lightbulb, and various other devices.

Question 3

Person of Interest:

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 3

Inventor of the telephone

Question 4

Person of Interest:

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 4

Founded the Standard Oil Trust

possibly one of the richest hidden men of the 1900s

Question 5

Term:

“Robber Baron”

Answer 5

A nickname for people with wealth attained through dishonest methods.

playing the system how it was meant to be played

Question 6

Person of Interest:

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 6

Built the U.S. steel industry

Question 7

Term:

Gilded Age

Answer 7

Late 1800s era of tremendous wealth

Question 8

Term:

Patent

Answer 8

Government documents giving the inventor the exclusive right to the intellectual property of an invention, and furthermore, to make and sell an invention for a certain number of years.

“patent pending”

Question 9

Term:

Corporation

Answer 9

Business owned by investors who buy part of it through shares of stock

Parker-Hannifin

Question 10

Term:

Large Scale Manufacturing

Answer 10

A replacement for farming in many parts of the country during the gilded age.

Question 11

Term:

Industrialization

Answer 11

The due process of develping industry and cutting down or automating labor efforts. This process rapidly reshaped the country, and brought us closer to what we know today.

Question 12

Event:

Steel Industry

Answer 12

William Kelly (US) and Henry Bessemer (UK) rapidly developed the Bessemer steel process. This used much less coal then what the other process used, launching the production process of steel to new heights and increasing the nations steel outpust by 350 times between 1867-1900.

Question 12

Event:

Electricity

Answer 12

Edison employed Lewis Latimer and many others to help invent preposterous amounts of products and, subsiquently, patents, the most out of most, if not all inventors. By 1882, Edison installed the first permanent commercial central power system in NYC.

factory opened in menlo park, NJ.

edison figured out how to make a home ready and stable electric light. He did NOT invent the electric light.

Question 13

Event:

Telephone

Answer 13

Bell was adjusting the transmitter in his lab, and his assistant, Thomas Watson, was in another room with the reciever. Bell spilled some acid, and said “Watson, come here. I need you.” Watson burst through and exclaimed that he heard the words through the reciever

Question 14

When was the influx of immigrants?

Answer 14

1890-1920 - During this time, millions came to the US.

Question 15

Industrial Revolution caused what?

Answer 15

The industrialization led to people moving to cities to adjust to the new economic environment

Question 16

Industries were usually located where?

Answer 16

In cities because of transportation capabilities and worker access.

Question 17

Term:

Urbanization

Answer 17

The growth of cities because of the industrial ripple effect. Furthermore its the integration of new urban areas to accommodate for the new economic climate.

Question 18

Term:

Skyscrapers

Answer 18

Tall buidings hosting the increased populus. Elevators came as a side effect of skyscrapers, astounding many.
Previously, buildings were no more than four stories.
Steel made skyscrapers possible by being able to support the weight of the buildings.

Question 19

Terms:

Streetcars

Answer 19

Electric Streetcars became a quickly growing source of transport for New York.
The use of which allowed labourers to live further away from their jobs rather than in the cities.
Communities on the outskirts became known as suburbs and eventually became part of the city.

Question 20

Before 1890s immigrants mainly came from where?

Answer 20

Northern and Western Europe

Question 21

After 1890 “new” immigrants came mainly from where?

Answer 21

Southern and Eastern Europe

Question 22

Term:

Ellis Island

Answer 22

New York’s station where European immigrants were processed. Immigrants were poked and prodded, baraged with questions and had to pass a medical exam; if they had health problems they were deported.

Question 23

Term:

Angel Island

Answer 23

San Francisco Bay immigration station with horrible conditions were terrible; most asian immigrants were held for weeks

Question 24

How did areas like Klien Doichland and Chinatown originate?

Answer 24

Though immigrants of similar ethnicities clumping together to help each other climb economic ranks.

Question 25

Asians worked as what?

Answer 25

Usually they worked as plantain workers, fishermen, farmers, miners or railroad setters.

Question 26

Term:

Nativists

Answer 26

People with great allegiance to their country. Usually xenophobic towards foreigners for many reasons; mainly because of lost economic oppertunities.

(people with a ton of undeserved nationalism, ego and confidence)

Nativists did not think immigrants would be able to blend into American society; or that if immigrants would blend into society, they would build political machines, and the immigrants will eventually control nativists. So they pushed for restrictions on immigrants.

Question 27

Term

Melting Pot

Answer 27

A place where cultures blend

Question 28

Term:

Asssimilation

Answer 28

The due prossess of blending into society by adopting preexisting cultures.

Question 29

The use of preexisting language encouraged what?

Answer 29

The use of English and sometimes citizenship classes, helped some assimilate into society faster.

Question 30

While assimilation was a prominent must for immigrants, there was still ____?

Answer 30

Reminants of native cultures, such as language, music and food.

Question 31

Protestants feared ____?

Answer 31

Catholics and Jews

Question 32

Job options for immigrants were generally ____?

Answer 32

Tedious, unsafe and long, as immigrants generally were unreserved and took whatever job they could get their hands on.

Nativists, however, worried they’d have to compete with immigrants for jobs, so they pushed for laws resticting immigration.

Question 33

Term:

Sweatshops

Answer 33

Crowded, unventilated, dangerous factories where labourers worked long for low pay.

Question 34

Term:

Immigration Act of 1882

Answer 34

New immigrants were taxed upon entry, and convicts or people with mental illness were banned.

Question 35

Term:

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 35

Law passed in 1882 banning Chinese workers from immigrating to the US for 10 years (renewed every 10 years until 1943)

The CEA was renewed until 1943, because during WWII the US and China had a mutual enemy of Japan.

Question 36

Event:

Chinese Racism

Answer 36

In the 1800s Chinese workers in the west faced mass discrimination. They were not only paid less then whites, but they were also subject to several racial attacks, and sometimes, they were even killed.

Question 37

Term:

Peonage

Answer 37

A form of forced work until a debt is payed off. Functions like indentured servitude. This practice was not banned until 1911.

Most of the time it was mexicans and africans who were forced into peonage.