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Who was known for lighting and uses of electricity?
Thomas Edison
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Who was known for the telephone invention?
Alexander Graham Bell
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This movement opposed / was against the making, transporting, selling, or consuming of alcohol.
Prohibition (19th Amendment)
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Name the reasons why cities developed.
- Specialized industries were introducedImmigration from other countries increased
- Movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for more job opportunitites
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Name the reasons for immigration increasing.
- Hope for better opportunities
- Hopes to find religious freedom
- Escape from oppressive governments
- Adventure
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Rapid industrialization and urbanization led to what?
Overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods and tenements
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Who founded the settlement house known as the Hull House?
Jane Addams
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Indian Chief for the Nez Pierce.
Chief Joseph
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Chief Joseph's famous speech.
"I will fight no more forever..."
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Name the battle that is known as "Custer's Last Stand".
The Battle of Little Bighorn
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Name the challenges faced by cities.
- Tenements and ghettos formed
- Political corruption (political machines)
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Name the laws that made discrimination practices legal.
The Jim Crow Laws
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Describe the Jim Crow Laws.
- Made discrimination practices legal in many communities and states
- Were characterized by unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government
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He believed equality through education and social separation / segregation.
Booker T. Washington
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He believed in full political, civil, and social rights for all African Americans.
W.E.B. Du Bois
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Who was known for the oil industry?
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Who was known for the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
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Who was known for the automobile industry?
Henry Ford
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This was known for reducing the cost of production making items affordable so everyone could buy it.
The assembly line
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Name the negative effects of Big Business.
- Child laber
- Low wages, yet long hours
- Unsafe working conditions
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Groups of trade unions united and formed what?
The American Federation of Labor
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The American Federation of Labor (AFL) represented who? What was the strike called where the workers had and lead to a union breakup / collapse?
- It represented labor workers
- The Homestead Strike
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Who was the Captain of Industry for railroads?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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What did political machines do?
- Used money to bribe
- Overcharged
- Bribed immigrants by attending to their needs
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