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Industrial Rev.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the man responsible for inventing morse code? | Samuel Morse |
| Who was the man responsible for inventing the bessemer process that changed iron ore into steel? | Andrew Carnegie |
| Which man used the assembly line process that build cars? | Henry Ford |
| Which man created a lightbulb that was cheaper and lasted for a longer period of time? | Thomas Edison |
| Which man's invention made it faster and easier to communicate over long distances? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Which type of immigrants were from Ireland, England, and Germany? | Old Immigrants |
| Which religious preference did new immigrants have? | Catholic and Jewish |
| What countries were new immigrants coming from? | Italy, Balkan Peninsula, and Russia |
| What is an immigrant? | a person who was born in another country and settles in a different country |
| How were people descriminated against at Ellis Island? | Mental illness, handicaps, and sickness |
| Why would a person choose to work in poor work conditions? | their families depended upon their income to survive |
| Why was there a need to form labor unions? | to protect employees exposed to low wages and dangerous work conditions |
| Who was hired to work for low wages, easy control, and to work in small tight spaces? | children |
| What were 2 major reason child labor laws were formed? | children worked long hours and did not have opportunities to go to school |
| What were pull factors for immigrants? | promises of economic opportunities, religious freedom,and political and social equality |
| What are economic opportunities? | jobs |
| What were push factors for immigrants? | forced to leave country because of war, poverty, or discrimination |
| Who was a powerful man in the oil business in the late 1800s and early 1900s? | John D. Rockefeller |
| Who was the man that made his riches by building banks and buying small companies to form new ones? | J.P Morgan |
| Why did people move to urban areas (cities) in the early 1900s? | in order to get jobs in factories |
| Why did Meditteranean people want to come to the United States? | they wanted to make a better life for themselves |
| How did immigrants live when they settled in the U.S? | in groups of people that shared common cultures |
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