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UNIT 3 Industry
Industrial Revolution vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agrarian | This is a form of livelihood by most early Americans based on agriculture (United States shifted from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy based on manufacturing) |
| Albert Einstein | He was a physicist who made significant contributions to the world of science and to the emergence of the United States as a world power (Manhattan Project) |
| Alexander Graham Bell | He is known for inventing the telephone |
| alliance | This is the joining of forces with another country or countries for political (military) reasons |
| American Federation of Labor | This was a progressive movement organization founded in 1886 working for higher wages & job security and better working conditions for all employees |
| Andrew Carnegie | He was a Scottish immigrant who contributed entrepreneurial skills to the growth of our nation primarily through the steel industry |
| Angel Island | This was the immigration station off the coast of San Francisco primarily for Asian immigrants |
| Central Powers | Germany & Austria-Hungary |
| Child Labor | This was the use of children in factories and on farms from age four and up which was chronicled through the lens of Lewis Hines |
| Eighteenth Amendment | This was the law prohibiting sale and production of alcohol |
| Ellis Island | This was the immigration station off the coast of New York (New Jersey) for European immigrants |
| Food and Drug Administration | This was one of the progressive laws that would oversee the safety of food and drug production |
| Henry Ford | He was the creator of the assembly line for mass production of products & starting factories in particular the automobile |
| Hull House | Chicago residence run by Jane Addams (1889) to assist poor immigrants in their acclimation to America |
| immigration | This is the movement of people from one country to another |
| imperialism | This was the accumulation of smaller countries and land in order to build up an empire by other large countries |
| Industrial Revolution | This is the time period of extreme industrial build up (late 1800's and early 1900's) |
| isolationism | This was the reluctance to become involved in alliances and wars during the early 1900's |
| John D. Rockefeller | He was entrepreneur who contributed his skills to the growth of our nation primarily through the oil industry |
| labor unions | These were organized groups that created better working conditions for Americans and immigrants |
| monopoly | This is total control of a industry by one person or one family or one company |
| Nineteenth Amendment | This was the law giving women the right to vote |
| Panama Canal | This was a man-made waterway built to allow Americans commercial and war ships to travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific more quickly |
| Progressive Era | This was a middle class movement that promoted the idea that society's problems could be solved by the passage of laws |
| Prohibition | Prohibiting the sale and production of alcohol |
| Rough Riders | This was the first United States volunteer cavalry led by Theodore Roosevelt used during the Spanish-American War |
| Samuel Morse | He was the inventor of the telegraph (talking wire as called by the Native Americans) a form of communication using wires strung from pole to pole that was a quick and inexpensive form of communication |
| tenements | These were large housing complexes in cities primarily for immigrants |
| Thomas Edison | He was an inventor of many items and an entrepreneur who perfected the light bulb (Also known as the Wizard of Menlo Park) |
| Women's Suffrage Movement | This was the movement campaigning for the equal rights of women primarily the right to vote but there were other issues |
| Wright Brothers | These two brothers started the aircraft industry with experiments in manned flight |
| WWI | European conflict between the Central Powers and Allied Powers |
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