Benchmarks Flashcards
______________invented the railroad sleeping car.
•George M Pullman
The practice of combining separate companies in an industry is called a ____________.
•consolidation
______________invented the electric lightbulb.
•Thomas Edison
____________invented the telephone.
•Alexander Graham Bell
The steel company owner who was a great philanthropist was _____________.
•Andrew Carnegie
Railroad barons were created when the industry ____________.
•consolidated
_____________ pioneered the assembly line.
•Henry Ford
Anti-labor feeling grew after the bloody clash in Chicago called the ____________ Riot.
•Haymarket
The demand to have a regulated schedule caused the railroad companies to create ____________.
•time zones
I. The late 1800s and early 1900s, many people moved to cities to take ____________jobs.
•factory
It took immigrants ____ days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
•12
Many immigrant lived in urban apartment called ___________.
•tenements
_____________invented moving pictures.
•Thomas Edison
Most Asian immigrants went through processing center on ____________Island.
•Angel
___________was a settlement house founded by Jane Addams.
•Hull House
_________________ designed Central Park and several other parks in Boston.
Fredrick Law Olmstand
People might ___________from their homeland in order to find a better life in America.
•Emigrate
To improve living conditions of the poor, ______________houses were established.
•settlement
Many middle-class families moved from the cities into the ______________.
•Suburbs
To maintain their culture, immigrants with the same language and customs tended to live in the same __________groups.
•ethnics groups and neighborhoods
______________ was the first law passed to limit immigration.
•Chinese Exclusion Act
What law required that immigrants be able to read or write in some language?
•Immigration Act of 1917
___________argued that schools should be more hands- on and relate to students interest.
•John Dewey
People enjoyed cheering for homes teams or local sports strs while attending ___________sports.
•spectator