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Chapter 18
Industry and Urban Growth- Class Notes
(1865-1915)
(America, History of Our Nation Textbook pages 604-632)
Instructions:
Use the American Nation Textbook Pages 572-595 and class notes to
answer these questions.
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)
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13. What is a rebate? (Slide 6)
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14. What was a railroad pool? (Slide 7)
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15. How did the railroads help the lumber and steel industry? (Slide 9)
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16. How did railroads help settlements? (Slide 9)
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17. Who invented the telegraph? (Slide 11)
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18. What did Cyrus Field complete? (Slide 11)
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19. What kind of machine did Alexander Graham Bell invent? (Slide 12)
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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)
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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)
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24. What did Granville T. Woods invent? (Slide 16)
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25. What did Jan Matzeliger invent? (Slide 17)
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26. What trouble did African Americans inventors have? (Slide 18)
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27. What is a patent? (Slide 18)
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28. What did Christopher Sholes invent? (Slide 19)
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29. What did George Eastman invent? (Slide 19)
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30. What did Gustavus Swift introduce? (Slide 19)
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31. Who revolutionized auto making? (Slide 21)
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32. What is an assembly line? (Slide 21)
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33. What is mass production? (Slide 22)
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34. What is another name for a “horseless carriage?” (Slide 23)
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35. What were the names of the first people to fly? (Slide 24)
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36. In what town did the Wright brothers fly their first plane? (Slide 24)
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37. What is an entrepreneur? (Slide 25)
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38. What is a corporation? (Slide 25)
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39. What is a monopoly? (Slide 25)
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40. How did the Bessemer process help the steel industry? (Slide 26)
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41. What city became the steel capital of the world? (Slide 27)
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42. What did the steel industry bring to the cities? (Slide 28)
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43. Who made his fortune from the steel industry? (Slide 29)
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44. What is vertical integration? (Slide 29)
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45. What is a philanthropist? (Slide 30)
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46. What is a Robber Baron? (Slide 30)
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47. How did Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward sell their products? (Slide 31)
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48. What is a dividend? (Slide 32)
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49. What valuable resource was discovered in 1859? (Slide 33)
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50. Who founded the Standard Oil Company? (Slide 33)
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51. What is a free enterprise system? (Slide 34)
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52. What did people from Europe and Asia find in America? (Slide 35)
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53. Were the conditions for factory workers in the 1870’s good or bad? (Slide 36)
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54. Who did factory workers hire to do the hazardous jobs? (Slide 37)
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55. Why did workers ban together? (Slide 38)
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56. What was the name of the union workers organized? (Slide 38)
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57. What was the goal of the Knights of Labor? (Slide 38)
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58. Why did membership drop in the Knights of Labor? (Slide 39)
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59. Who formed the AFL? (Slide 40)
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60. What were the AFL goals? (Slide 40)
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61. Who led the protest for better working conditions for women? (Slide 42)
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62. What was the name of the biggest strike? (Slide 43)
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63. Define the term, injunction. (Slide 44)
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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?
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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 push factor? (Slide 65)
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87. What is a pull 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)
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103. What did the Freedman’s Bureau do? (Slide 79)
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104. Define the term, segregated. (Slide 79)
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105. What a typical day like in the first public school? (Slide 80)
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106. Who was the first African American to graduate Harvard Law School?
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107. What is a dime novel? (Slide 82)
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108. Who were the two most important writers of this time period?
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109. What is yellow journalism? (Slide 83)
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110. What did Nellie Bly pretend to be in order to help the insane people?
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115. Who wrote the Adventures of Tom Sawyer? (Slide 85)
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