Technological Advances Potpourri Which IR Was It? Mind Your Own BUSINESS You Came From Where?

Technological Advances $100 This allowed people to communicate almost instantaneously by sending a series of dots and dashes along wires.

Tech Advances $100 What is a telegraph?

Tech Advances $200 This made it possible for steel to be made cheaply and quickly

Tech Advances $200 What is the Bessemer Process?

Tech Advances $300 The first thing that oil was primarily used for during the late 1800s was what?

Tech Advances $300 What is kerosene?

Tech Advances $400 Before kerosene, what did Americans have to burn in order to use their lamps?

Tech Advances $400 What is whale oil?

Tech Advances $500 Innovations to this were the largest factor in spurring industrialization

Tech Advances $500 What are the railroads?

Potpourri $100 A majority of the poor and working class lived in poorly-built apartments called these

Potpourri $100 What are tenements?

Potpourri $200 These people believed that poor people were unable to adapt to the changing economy like they were and therefore should not be assisted through welfare programs.

Potpourri $200 Who are the Social Darwinists?

Potpourri $300 During the Industrial Era, the rich adopted a new lifestyle in which their goal in life was to display their wealth. It is referred to as this.

Potpourri $300 What is conspicuous consumption?

Potpourri $400 The most popular form of commercial entertainment during this period was this, which combined singing and dancing.

Potpourri $400 What is vaudeville?

Potpourri $500 The area of the country in which the federal government has done the most to aid in the economic and social development is

Potpourri $500 What is the West?

Which IR? $100 The 1 st Industrial Revolution focused on innovating what industry?

Which IR? $100 What is farming?

Which IR? $200 What 2 resources made the 2 nd Industrial Revolution possible?.

Which IR? $200 What are Steel and Oil?

Which IR? $300 By the end of the Second Industrial Revolution, a majority of Americans lived where?

Which IR? $300 What is in cities?

Which IR? $400 Finish this sentence: Life expectancy during the Industrial Revolution…

Which IR? $400 What is increased?

Which IR? $500 Which group was the most affected by the Industrial Revolution?

Which IR? $500 Who are women?

Business $100 The United States economy is based on this economic theory.

Business $100 What is capitalism?

Business $200 This was a new form of business organization where companies raised money by selling shares of stock in the company.

Business $200 What is a corporation?

Business $300 Trusts and monopolies were so appealing to business owners because they eliminated what?

Business $300 What is competition?

Business $400 This was a failed attempt by the federal government to regulate trusts and monopolies.

Business $400 What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?

Business $500 In this, firms attempted to gain control of production at every step of production.

Business $500 What is vertical integration?

You Came From Where? $100 Old immigrants came from which part of Europe?

You Came From Where? $100 Where is Western Europe?

You Came From Where? $200 Where did new immigrants seek jobs?

You Came From Where? $200 Where are factories/cities?

You Came From Where? $300 What was the name of the most prominent settlement house?

You Came From Where? $300 What is Hull House?

You Came From Where? $400 Who came to the aid of the immigrants?

Who Came From Where? $400 Who are the politicians?

You Came From Where? $500 What was the name Americans gave to the Europeans’ intense desire to come to America after it was advertised as a land of freedom and plenty?

You Came From Where? $500 What is “America Fever”?