Vocabulary Inventors! Main Ideas Innovations and Inventions World of Capital/World of Labor
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What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
A period of rapid growth in US manufacturing in the late 1800s.
100
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
An inventor from New jersey with over 1,000 patents to his name. He sought a replacement for kerosene.
100
What is the second Industrial revolution?
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence
100
Who are mercenaries?
Professional soldiers who will fight for anyone who will pay them.
100
Who is Barack Obama?
The current president
200
What is the Bessemer process?
A way to manufacture steel quickly by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities.
200
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
An inventor who solved the problem that telegraphs were very difficult to use.
200
What is ratify?
To approve a law
200
Who is Thomas Paine?
This person wrote The Crisis that helped to inspire American troops during winter at Valley Forge
200
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This President was president in 1980-1988.
300
What is The Boston Massacre
This was a deadly riot between colonists and British troops stationed in Boston
300
Who is Henry Ford?
An inventor who developed the moving assembly line to reduce the high cost of building something by hand.
300
What is Philadelphia
The Declaration was written in this city.
300
What is The Treaty of Paris?
This Treaty officially ended the American Revolution.
300
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He was president during the American Civil War
400
What is to refuse to buy goods from a certain source
The definition of boycott
400
Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
Inventors who altered transportation by using a small gas-powdered engine in their product.
400
What is July 4th, 1776
The date the Declaration was officially ratified.
400
Who is General Corwallis?
The name of the British General who surrendered at Yorktown.
400
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This president served the shortest time in office (30 days)
500
What is The Intolerable Acts
This Act united the colonies against Britain
500
Who is Frederick W. Taylor?
An efficiency engineer who published a book called "Principals of Scientific Management" in which he invented a system treat workers like interchangeable parts.
500
What is a traitor?
A person guilty of disloyalty to the government
500
What is the French Revolution?
The American Revolution influenced this country's revolution.
500
Who are: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy?
The four presidents to be assassinated (killed while in office)






Chapter 18: An Industrial Nation

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