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Industrial Age
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| a huge change or a change in the ways things are done | revolution |
| having to do with industry, business, or manufacturing | industrial |
| a change from making things by hand to making them in factories | industrial revolution |
| Transportation took a huge leap forward with the invention of this. | locomotive (train) |
| a wealthy, powerful person in business or industry | tycoon |
| Co-founder of the Central Pacific Railroad, creator of Stanford University, and governor of California | Leland Stanford |
| This invention could only spin one thread at a time. | spinning wheel |
| This invention could spin 8 threads at a time. | spinning jenny |
| This renewable resource was used to power new textile (clothing) inventions. | water |
| Name two inventions which changed the rate at which farmers could do their work and produce more. | seed drill and reaper |
| Which invention allowed buildings to be built much taller? | steel |
| Why couldn't tall buildings be made with iron? | It was too soft and the buildings would bend. |
| Who became a millionaire by mass producing steel? | Andrew Carnegie |
| Who invented the light bulb and the phonograph? | Thomas Edison |
| Who patented the first telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Who became the richest man in the world in the oil business? | John D. Rockefeller |
| Who invented the first practical car? | Henry Ford |
| Who were the first men to successfully fly an airplane? | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| What term describes a situation where one company controls an entire industry and is so big and powerful that all of its competitors are destroyed? | monopoly |
| JP Morgan was well known for buying and fixing failed businesses. What term was used to describe this process? | Morganization |
| What was the name given to industrialists who controlled much of the nation's wealth? | robber barons |
| Who is a modern day person that can be compared to the 19th century industrialists? | Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs |
| What does suffrage mean? | the right to vote |
| Name one suffragette. | Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| What was the temperance movement and prohibition about? | making alcohol illegal |
| What was the name of the incident where women working in a factory had to jump to their death to avoid being burned alive? | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
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