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Study Guide:
Chapter 20
1.
Who was Lewis Latimer?
2.
Government documents that give an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell an
invention for a number of years is called?
3.
Who was Thomas Edison?
4.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
5.
Who was Elias Howe?
6.
Who was Latham Sholes?
7.
A business owned by shareholders? What are shareholders?
8.
Who was John D. Rockefeller? What was his idea on the best way to make money?
9.
A company that wipes out its competition and controls and industry is called?
10.
A legal body created to hold stocks in many companies, often in the same industry is
called?
11.
A business leader who uses dishonest methods to grow rich in the late 1800’s was called?
12.
Who was Andrew Carnegie? What was his idea on the best way to make money?
13.
What is the business cycle?
14.
Periods of extreme low economic activities are called?
15.
What was the Gilded Age? Who coined the phrase? What two meanings did it have?
16.
Growth of cities that resulted from people moving into them is called?
17.
Name three inventions that helped with urbanization of cities?
A.
B.
C.
18.
The first place where immigrants from Europe came to in America is called? Where was
this place located?
19.
The first place where Asian immigrant came to in America is called? Where was this
place located?
20.
A place where cultures blend in called? This is the process of blending into society?
21.
Hot, crowded, dangerous factories are known as this?
22.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
23.
This is a system of labor, where workers are forced to work until they pay off their debt?
24.
What are tenements?
25.
A neighborhood overcrowded and dangerous housing called?
26.
Who was Jane Addams? What did she start in 1889?
27.
What was the Social Gospel Movement?
28.
An illegal gang that influenced votes to control local governments called? What was the
most famous one?
29.
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
30.
Separation of whites and blacks in public places was called?
31.
Hanging without due process of the law is called?
32.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
33.
What happened in the Supreme Court case Plessy VS. Ferguson?
34.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
35.
Who was W. E. B. Du Bois?
36.
What is the acronym NAACP stand for? Who founded it?
37.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
38.
What is socialism?
39.
These people believe in anarchy, the abolition of all governments.
40.
What happened in the Haymarket Affair?
41.
What is the AFL? Who helped start it?
42.
What happened in the Homestead Strike?
43.
What was the Pullman Strike? What was Eugene V. Debs roll in the strike?
44.
A common culture experienced by large numbers of people is called?
45.
Freedom from the time consuming duties is called?
46.
Owner of the New York World, and New York Morning Journal?
47.
Someone who buys something is called?
48.
A mixture of music, dance, and comedy is called?
49.
A musical blend of African American songs and European musical forms is called?