Term | Definition |
a huge change or a change in the ways things are done | revolution |
having to do with industry, business, or manufacturing | industrial |
a change from making things by hand to making them in factories | industrial revolution |
Transportation took a huge leap forward with the invention of this. | locomotive (train) |
a wealthy, powerful person in business or industry | tycoon |
Co-founder of the Central Pacific Railroad, creator of Stanford University, and governor of California | Leland Stanford |
This invention could only spin one thread at a time. | spinning wheel |
This invention could spin 8 threads at a time. | spinning jenny |
This renewable resource was used to power new textile (clothing) inventions. | water |
Name two inventions which changed the rate at which farmers could do their work and produce more. | seed drill and reaper |
Which invention allowed buildings to be built much taller? | steel |
Why couldn't tall buildings be made with iron? | It was too soft and the buildings would bend. |
Who became a millionaire by mass producing steel? | Andrew Carnegie |
Who invented the light bulb and the phonograph? | Thomas Edison |
Who patented the first telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
Who became the richest man in the world in the oil business? | John D. Rockefeller |
Who invented the first practical car? | Henry Ford |
Who were the first men to successfully fly an airplane? | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
What term describes a situation where one company controls an entire industry and is so big and powerful that all of its competitors are destroyed? | monopoly |
JP Morgan was well known for buying and fixing failed businesses. What term was used to describe this process? | Morganization |
What was the name given to industrialists who controlled much of the nation's wealth? | robber barons |
Who is a modern day person that can be compared to the 19th century industrialists? | Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs |
What does suffrage mean? | the right to vote |
Name one suffragette. | Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
What was the temperance movement and prohibition about? | making alcohol illegal |
What was the name of the incident where women working in a factory had to jump to their death to avoid being burned alive? | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |