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Industrial Age

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