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Industrialization
Vocabulary for Industrialization and Immigration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 18th Amendment | outlawed the making, sale, and transporting of alcoholic beverages |
| agrarian society | a society where most people make their living by farming |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone |
| Angel Island | a processing center for immigrants on the West Coast (many Chinese went through here) |
| assembly line | method of mass production in which a product is put together as it moves past a line of workers |
| Blue Laws | laws designed to solve social problems, such as alcohol abuse |
| capitalism | An economic system where goods & services are privately or corporately owned and individuals are free to own or work for the business of their choosing with little government control. (Free enterprise) |
| cultural exchange | the exchange of ideas, music, fashion and other cultural elements through trade and travel |
| Ellis Island | A processing center for immigrants on the East Coast (mostly immigrants from Europe) |
| Entrepreneur | someone who creates his/her own business |
| ethnic group | group of people who share the same customs and language |
| Food and Drug Administration | The government agency formed during the Industrial Revolution that tests & monitors all food and drugs for safe consumption. |
| Henry Ford | invented the Model T, the first mass produced car in the United States |
| immigrant | a person who moves to another country to live permanently |
| mass production | making a large number of goods that are exactly alike |
| mechanization | using machines to do work that used to be done by people |
| monopoly | a company that has total control of a product or service |
| Progressives | reformers who believed that society's problems could be solved by passing laws |
| Prohibition | the period of time from 1920 to 1933 in the U.S. when it was illegal to make or sell alcohol |
| reform | to change for the better |
| rural | relating to the country (often associated with farming) |
| Samuel Morse | Invented the telegraph, created Morse Code for sending messages on it. |
| strike | refusal of workers to work until business owners meet their demands |
| sweatshop | factory or workshop where people work under poor conditions |
| telegraph | device that sends coded messages through wires using electricity |
| tenements | building, especially in a poor section of a city, divided into small apartments with 1 or 2 rooms |
| Thomas Edison | Invented the light bulb |
| urban | relating to the city |
| urbanization | Movement of people from rural areas to cities. |
| Wright Brothers | Invented the airplane (tested at Kitty Hawk, NC) |
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