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History 109
Chapters 17 and 18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the "bureaus of immigration" offer? | Reduced rates to travelers interested in buying farms. |
| What process did Henry Bessemer and William Kelly perfect? | The Bessemer process. |
| What were two new important industries? | The telephone and Electric light business. |
| When was the telephone invented? | 1876 |
| What was Edison's most significant achievements? | The incandescent lamp and electric light bulb. |
| How did Carnegie sale railroads? | By paying commissions to railroad purchasing agents. |
| By what year did Carnegie Steel Company dominate the industry? | 1890 |
| Who controlled 90 percent of the nations oil refining capacity by 1879? | John D. Rockfeller |
| By 1892 how much was john d. Rockefeller worth? | $800 million |
| What is laissez-faire? | believing strongly in a government policy of noninterference |
| What is the Foran Act of 1885? | It outlaws the private agencies serving as a link between the new arrivals and employers looking for labor. |
| What theory said that consumers derived little real pleasure from their big homes and gaudy purchases. That they were simply showing off their wealth and were never really satisfied?WH | Theory of the Leisure Class. |
| What is a tenement? | A set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house/ block of apartments. |
| What is New Immigration? | Immigrants who came from southern and eastern Europe. |
| What is Nativism? | Policy of protecting interest of native born or established inhabitants against immigrants. |
| What existed primarily to resist "the Catholic menace." | American Protective Association. |
| What is a "lung block?" | A corner where there is a prevalence of tuberculosis among its inhabitants. |
| Who installed the first practical electric trolley line in Richmond, Virginia? | Frank J. Sprague |
| What was Social Gospel focused on? | Improving living conditions rather than saving souls. |
| What are community centers located in poor districts that provided guidance and services to all who would use them called? | Settlement houses. |
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