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Industry and Urban Growth
A New Industrial Revolution
Key Terms
Assembly Line –
Patent -
Method of production in which workers add parts to a product as it moves past them on a belt.
An inventor must obtain a document giving him or her the sole right to make and sell an invention
• Who was the inventor of the telephone?
• Who was the “Wizard of Menlo Park”?
• Who made it possible through mass production for more people to own cars?
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Big Business and Organized Labor
• Key Terms
entrepreneur –
corporation -
monopoly -
A person who sets up a new business to make a profit
Business owned by investors
Company that controls most or all business in an industry
• Knights of Labor
• AFL -
Terence Powderly was elected president
Included all workers – African-American, women, immigrants, and unskilled workers
American Federation of Labor
Founded by Samuel Gompers
Skilled workers only
Used Collective Bargaining as a way to gain improvements
- unions negotiate with management for workers as a group.
Cities Grow and Change
• Key Termsurbanization – settlement house –
Jane Adams -
Rapid growth of city populations
Is a center offering help to urban poor
Opened settlement house in Chicago called Hull House
The New Immigrants
• Reasons for migration • “Land of Opportunity”• Jobs• Religious freedom• Freedom - wanting traditions of liberty and democracy
• Becoming American• Assimilate – the process of becoming a part of another
culture