Industry and Urban Growth

Name______Date______

Industry and Urban Growth

(1865-1915)

(America, History of Our Nation Textbook pages 604-632)

Instructions:

Use the American NationTextbook Pages 572-595 and class notes to answer these questions. Answer the following questions in complete sentences or you will loose half credit!

1. What birthday did America celebrate in 1876? (Slide 2)

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2. How did production change in the world? (Slide 2)

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3. Who invented the telephone? (Slide 2)

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4. How did railroads help in the Civil War? (Slide 3)

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5. Define the term, gauge. (Slide 3)

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6. What is a network? (Slide 4)

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7. Name two improvements in the railroad? (Slide 4) ______

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8. Define the term, consolidated. (Slide 5)

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9. Who bought up the railroad lines? (Slide 5)

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10. How much railroad track did Cornelius Vanderbilt own before he died? (Slide 5)

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11. What railroad did Vanderbilt buy? (Slide 5)

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12. What was cutthroat competition? (Slide 6) ______

13. What is a rebate? (Slide 6) ______

14. What was a railroad pool? (Slide 7) ______

15. How did the railroads help the lumber and steel industry? (Slide 9) ______

16. How did railroads help settlements? (Slide 9) ______

17. Who invented the telegraph? (Slide 11)

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18. What did Cyrus Field complete? (Slide 11) ______

19. What kind of machine did Alexander Graham Bell invent? (Slide 12) ______

20. What was the name of the company Alexander Graham Bell started? (Slide 12)

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21. Name two inventions Thomas Edison created? (Slide 13) A.______

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22. Why was Edison’s invention of an electric power plant so important to us today? (Hint: What did the plant supply for homes?) (Slide 14)

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23. What did Elijah McCoy invent? (Slide 15) ______

24. What did Granville T. Woods invent? (Slide 16) ______

25. What did Jan Matzeliger invent? (Slide 17) ______

26. What trouble did African Americans inventors have? (Slide 18) ______

27. What is a patent? (Slide 18) ______

28. What did Christopher Sholes invent? (Slide 19) ______

29. What did George Eastman invent? (Slide 19) ______

30. What did Gustavus Swift introduce? (Slide 19) ______

31. Who revolutionized auto making? (Slide 21) ______

32. What is an assembly line? (Slide 21) ______

33. What is mass production? (Slide 22) ______

34. What is another name for a “horseless carriage?” (Slide 23) ______

35. What were the names of the first people to fly? (Slide 24) ______

36. In what town did the Wright brothers fly their first plane? (Slide 24) ______

37. What is an entrepreneur? (Slide 25) ______

38. What is a corporation? (Slide 25) ______

39. What is a monopoly? (Slide 25) ______

40. How did the Bessemer process help the steel industry? (Slide 26) ______

41. What city became the steel capital of the world? (Slide 27) ______

42. What did the steel industry bring to the cities? (Slide 28) ______

43. Who made his fortune from the steel industry? (Slide 29) ______

44. What is vertical integration? (Slide 29) ______

45. What is a philanthropist? (Slide 30) ______

46. What is a Robber Baron? (Slide 30) ______

47. How did Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward sell their products? (Slide 31) ______

48. What is a dividend? (Slide 32)

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49. What valuable resource was discovered in 1859? (Slide 33) ______

50. Who founded the Standard Oil Company? (Slide 33) ______

51. What is a free enterprise system? (Slide 34) ______

52. What did people from Europe and Asia find in America? (Slide 35) ______

53. Were the conditions for factory workers in the 1870’s good or bad? (Slide 36) ______

54. Who did factory workers hire to do the hazardous jobs? (Slide 37) ______

55. Why did workers ban together? (Slide 38) ______

56. What was the name of the union workers organized? (Slide 38) ______

57. What was the goal of the Knights of Labor? (Slide 38) ______

58. Why did membership drop in the Knights of Labor? (Slide 39) ______

59. Who formed the AFL? (Slide 40) ______

60. What were the AFL goals? (Slide 40) ______

61. Who led the protest for better working conditions for women? (Slide 42) ______

62. What was the name of the biggest strike? (Slide 43) ______

63. Define the term, injunction. (Slide 44) ______

64. What was Urbanization? (Slide 45)

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65. What problems did African Americans face? (Slide 47)

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66. What was city life like? (Slide 48)

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67. What is a slum? (Slide 49)

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68. What is a tenement? (Slide 49)

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69. Why were building codes started? (Slide 50)

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70. What organization did William Booth start? (Slide 52)

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71. What did the Young Men’s Hebrew Association provide? (Slide 53)

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72. What was the name of the settlement house Jane Addams established?

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73. What is a skyscraper? (Slide 55)

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74. What is a traffic jam? (Slide 55)

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75. Why did people move to the suburbs? (Slide 56)

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76. How was electricity used in the cities? (Slide 57)

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77. Who opened a nine story building for shopping in New York? (Slide 58)

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78. What was vaudeville? (Slide 59)

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79 What was Ragtime music? (Slide 60)

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80. African American composer made Ragtime music famous? (Slide 60)

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81. Who wrote the Stars and Stripes Forever? (Slide 61)

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82. What sport became the most popular sport in the nation? (Slide 62)

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83. What was the name of the first African American professional team?

(Slide 62)

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84. What sport was banned until stricter rules were enforced? (Slide 63)

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85. Who invented the sport, basketball? (Slide 64)

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86. What is a pull factor? (Slide 65)

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87. What is a push factor? (Slide 65)

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88. Define the term, prosecution. (Slide 68)

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89. What spread rapidly on the immigrant’s ocean voyage? (Slide 69)

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90. Where did the ocean voyage end for the immigrants? (Slide70)

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91. What famous statue did the immigrants pass in New York City? (Slide 70)

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92. What was the name of the receiving station the immigrants passed? (Slide 71)

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93. What did doctors do to the immigrants that arrived at Ellis Island? (Slide 71)

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94. In the 1800’s where did the immigrants arrive from?

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95. What did many immigrants hear about the streets of New York City? (Slide 73)

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96. What is an ethnic group? (Slide 74)

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97. What stood at the center of the immigrant family? (Slide 75)

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98. Define the term, assimilation. (Slide 75)

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99. How did many Americans feel about immigration? (Slide 76)

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100. What was a nativist? (Slide 76)

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101. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act? (Slide 77)

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102. As industry grew, what happened to education and public schools? (Slide 78)