Rise of Industry

Question 1

Made fortune in steamships and railroads

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 2

Wanted to change world; blamed for Haymarket Square; Wanted a utopia; accepted most workers

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Knights Of Labor

Question 3

One person owns everything; no competition

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Monopoly

Question 4

Craft union; skilled workers only; still around today

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A.F.L.

Question 5

People who give charity to their fellow man

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Philanthropists

Question 6

system based on private ownership

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capitalism

Question 7

Entry point for immigrants; opened in 1892

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Ellis Island

Question 8

Developed the light bulb; phonograph; movie projector, etc.; over 1000 patents

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Thomas Edison

Question 9

Sold African-Am hair products, 1st female millionare

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Madam CJ Walker

Question 10

Copyrights given to inventors.

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patents

Question 11

Owing a piece of a business; a share

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stock

Question 12

Gov't keeps its hands off business

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laissez faire

Question 13

Led the United Farm Workers Boycott

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Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta

Question 14

Help the poor with poverty, alcoholism, and salvation

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Social Gospel Groups

Question 15

People who move to a new land for better chances

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Immigrants

Question 16

Site of tragedy; many women workers killed; led to safety regulations

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Question 17

Spoken by Eastern European Jews; humor

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Yiddish

Question 18

Jane Addams established to provide a place for poor to learn English, live and play

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Hull House

Question 19

Reasons immigrants leave their home for a new land

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Push Factor, Pull Factor

Question 20

Traveled from Scotland; very poor; began U.S. Steel; became rich

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Andrew Carnegie

Question 21

workers' organization; fights for better pay and/or conditions

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union

Question 22

Iowa Gov who accepted boat people refugees

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Robert Ray

Question 23

Worked to protect workers; miners & minors

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Mother Jones

Question 24

Invented the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

Question 25

Term used to describe immigrants to the USA becoming one

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Melting Pot

Question 26

Refusing to buy a product

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boycott

Question 27

Tragic event in Chicago; Bomb was thrown; Union leaders accused and hung

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Haymarket Square Riot

Question 28

idea that justified the rich being rich and the poor being poor; survival of the fittest

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Social Darwinism

Question 29

People who take risks to start business; innovators

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Entrepeneurs

Question 30

A business owns the workers, houses, stores, and lives. Pullman, Ill.

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Company Town

Question 31

Refusing to work to force company to provide more $$/conditions

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Strike

Question 32

A company owned by shareholders

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Corporation

Question 33

Elevators and steel made them possible.

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skyscrapers

Question 34

Law that reduced the number of one race of immigrants

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Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 35

Helped build the Brooklyn Bridge

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Emily Roebling

Question 36

Entry Point for Asians

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Angel Island

Question 37

Shut down nation's RRs; Baltimore depots burned; Ended by soldiers

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Great Railroad Strike

Question 38

People who developed a flying machine

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Wright Bros.

Question 39

Richest person in history; founded Standard Oil

Accepted Answer

John D. Rockefeller

Question 40

Joined the Atlantic and Pacific; connected with a golden spike.

Accepted Answer

transcontinental railroad

Rise of Industry

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Rise of Industry

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