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Chapter 5
New Industries and People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What group of people playing an important role in constructing the Transcontinental railroad? | Immigrants from Ireland and China |
| What did the United States Government do to speed up the progress on the railroad? | Gave each company land and money based on the amount of track the company laid. |
| How did the Trancontinental railroad benefit the nation? | Improved travel for people, transport materials to factories |
| Whose inventions made electricity available to many Homes and Businesses? | Thomas Edison |
| How many immigrants came upon American shore (1860-1910) | 23 Million immigrants |
| Once immigrants arrived in the U.S. what areas did they most often settle in? | Chinese settled in California and European settled in New YOrk |
| How did advertisement increase immigration? | Immigrants learned about jobs and moved to the U.S. |
| What did many of the immgrants live in during the 1800's and early 1900's | They were crowded together in poorly built apartment building called Tenement |
| Where did most European immigrants come into America? | Ellis Island in New York Harbor |
| Where did most Asian immigrants come into America? | Angel Island in San Franciso Bay |
| What reasons did Americans have for being upset about immigrants coming into the U.S. | They were worried that immigrants would take their jobs. |
| What act was passed by congress to prevent Asian immigrants from coming into the U.S.? | Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) |
| George Westinghouse | American inventor who designed an AIR BRAKE for stoipping trains |
| Granville T. Woods | African American who improved the air brake and developed a telegragh system for trains |
| Theodore Jurah | Enginer who founded the Central Pacific Railroad and planned the route of the 1st Transcontinental Railroad |
| The Big Four-ran the central pacific and southern pacific railroad | Leland Stanford |
| The Big Four-invested in Railroad | Collis Huntington |
| The Big Four-invested in Railroad | Mark Hopkins |
| The Big Four-invested in Railroad | Charles Crocker |
| Edwin Drake | Drilled an oil well in Pennylvania |
| John D. Rockefeller | Built an oil refinery called Standard oil Company |
| Andrew Carnegie | Helped the American steel industry grow |
| William Jenney | Developed the use of steel frames to build tall building (SKYSCRAPERS) |
| John Roebling | Designed suspension bridges |
| Thomas Alva Edison | Electric lightbulb & buit 1st power station to supply electricity to New York city |
| Israel Zangwill | Wrote the play "The Melting Pot" |
| Irving Berlin | Wrote the song "God Bless America" |
| John Philip Sousa | Wrote "Stars and Strips Forever" |
| Jacob Riis | Writer who described the living conditions of the poor in New York City |
| Jane Addams | Brought the idea of settlement houses from Britain to the U.S. (Hull House) |
| Lillians Wald | Started the (Henry Street Settlement) in New York City |
| Andrew Hallide | Invented the cable car |
| Frank Sprague | Built the trollery car |
| Samuel Gompers | Helped organized the American Federation of Labor |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad that links Atlantic and Pacific Coast |
| Free Enterprise | Economic system in which people may start a business with little government control |
| Petroleum | Oil |
| Entrepreneur | A person that sets up and run a business |
| Tenement | A poorly build apartment building |
| Regulation | Rules or an order |
| Settlement House | A community center that provides food, health care and classes where people can learn new skills |
| Labor union | A group of workers who join together to improve their working conditions |
| Strike | The stopping of work in protest of poor working conditions |
| Collective Bargaining | Employers and workers discuss and agree on working conditions |
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