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40 Cards in this Set
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What is the name of the government document that gives an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell an invention for a number of years? |
Patents |
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What is the process of changing industry in the way industry was ran called? |
Industrialization |
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Who invented the telephone? |
Alexander Graham Bell |
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What became the basis of new Industries? |
New inventions |
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What two inventions led to more jobs for women? |
Switchboard and typewriter |
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Who patented the first sewing machine? |
Elias Howe |
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What industry did the sewing machine create? |
Clothing industry |
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How did most businesses get money to buy equipment? |
Corporations |
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Investors who buy part of a company are called what? |
Shareholder |
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who dominated Oil Business in the late 1800's? |
John D Rockefeller |
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What Industry did Andrew Carnegie lead? |
Steel industry |
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Who are people who give large sums of money to charities? |
Philanthropists |
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In Industry what is the pattern of good and bad times called? |
Business cycle |
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What are good times called and what are bad times called? |
Good: booms bad: busts |
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What are periods of extremely low economic activity called? |
Depression |
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What drew Industries to cities? |
Good transportation and plentiful workers |
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What was the significant growth in cities called? |
Urbanization |
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What type of building helped cities absorb many people? |
Skyscraper |
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What invention made the building of these tall buildings possible? |
Electric elevators |
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How did electricity help transportation in the cities? |
Street cars and suburbs |
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What did new transportation allow to develop? |
Suburbs |
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Where was the first stop for most immigrants to the United States? |
Ellis island |
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What is the name of the United States as a place where cultures blend? |
Melting pot |
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What is the name for the immigrants blending into American society? |
Assimilation |
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What are hot, crowded, dangerous factories called? |
Sweatshops |
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What were the run-down, overcrowded apartment buildings called? |
Tenements |
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Buildings led to overcrowded dangerous neighborhoods called what? |
Slum |
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Who fought for changes in the neighborhood? |
Urban reformers |
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What settlement house did Jane Addams found? |
Hull house |
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What movement inspired many reformers? |
Social Gospel Movement |
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What was another type of organization that also addressed the problems of the city? |
Political machine |
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What behaviors did racist beliefs cause? |
Violence and racial discrimination |
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What word means hung without due process of the law? |
Lynched |
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What African American leader thought economic security was the best way for African Americans to achieve equality? |
Booker T. Washington |
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On the other hand what African American leader thought the best way to fight segregation was to fight? |
W. E. B. Du Bois |
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What group helped play a major role in ending segregation? |
NAACP~ National Association for the Advanced Colored People |
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What woman became an effective leader in fighting for the rights of working people? |
Mary Harris Jones |
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What did working people do to improve their conditions? |
Organize |
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What were the groups called that negotiated with business owners to obtain better wages and working conditions? |
Unions |
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What was the name of the first International Organization for workers? |
Knights of Labor |
