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Industrial Revolution and Immigration PASS Review
Question | Answer |
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What did Samuel Morse do? | He invented a way to send telegraph messages using Morse Code. |
What was the Industrial Revolution? | It was a time period of new inventions and technologies. |
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent? | He invented the telephone. |
What is Thomas Edison famous for? | He invented more than 1,000 new inventions, including the electric light bulb, the phonograph, and the electric power station. |
What did Orville and Wilbur Wright do? | In 1903, they made the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
What did Henry Ford do? | He invented the assembly line, which is a method of mass production that lowered the cost of automobiles. |
What did Albert Einstein invent? | He invented the atomic bomb. |
What is mechanization? | It is when we use machines to do work. Inventors in the 1800's created new machines to make farming easier. |
Between 1880 and 1920 where did most immigrants come from? | They came from Europe. |
What did immigrants contribute to? | They contributed to the growth of big cities. |
What countries did many immigrants come from? | Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. |
Where were immigrants examined? | They were examined on Angel Island in San Francisco and Ellis Island in New York City before being allowed in the country. |
What are tenements? | They are run-down buildings divided into apartments where many immigrants lived. |
What are slums? | They are unsafe and run-down sections of a city were tenements are often found. |
Where did immigrants work? | They found jobs in our country's railroads, factories and mines. Some sold goods from push carts. |
What is a sweatshop? | It is a workshop that is hot, cramped and dangerous. Many immigrants worked there. |
What is prejudice? | It is an unfair negative opinion about a group of people. |
What is diversity? | It is variety. |
What are settlement houses? | They were first founded by Jane Addams as community centers that offered food, clothing and basic needs for poor people. |
What process did Carnegie use to make steel? | He used the Bessemer process to make it in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
What did John D. Rockefeller do? | He was a business leader who started the Standard Oil Company, one of the largest monopolies in the United States. |
What is a monopoly? | It is a company that controls an entire industry. |
What is a corporation? | It is a business owned by investors, and it sells shares of the company. |
What are stocks? | They are shares of a company. |
What is free enterprise? | It is an economic system in which people are free to start their own businesses and own their own property. |
How did the rise of big business change the United States? | It changed the US because by the early 1900's more people worked in industries than on farms. |
What are two things that contributed to the increase in the population of cities? | New industries and the increasing number of immigrants contributed to the increase of population in cities. |
What is urbanization? | It is the movement of people from rural areas to cities. |
What are labor unions? | they are organizations formed by workers to fight for better wages and working conditions. They also worked to end child labor. |
What is a strike? | It is when workers refuse to work to try to force business owners to meet their demands. |
What was the Great Migration? | It was the movement of millions of African Americans to the northern United States from the southern United State between 1915 and 1940's in search of work and fair treatment. |
What are Progressives? | They are reformers who worked to stop unfair business practices and to improve the way in which the government worked. |
What is a muckraker? | It is a writer who helped to focus the country's attention on unfair business practices. |
What are two reform acts that Theodore Roosevelt signed? | He signed the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. |
What did John Muir do? | He was one of the first conservationists who worked to preserve the wilderness. |