Economic Expansion Review

new ideas about how to do something or the equipment needed to do it

• progressive

• reform

• technology

• manufacturing

improved the lightbulb

• Henry Ford

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Orville Wright

• Thomas Edison

Immigrants took any job they could find and were willing to work for lower wages.

• Caused them to be resented by native born Americans

• Caused them to go back to their home country

• Caused wages to be raised

• Caused them to move to the country

Farmers produced more crops which caused the prices to fall

• Example of industrialization

• Example of mechanization

• Example of supply and demand

• Example of a monopoly

US gained control of Guam, Puerto Rico, and Philippines

• Results of industrialization

• Results of Spanish American War

• Results of Civil War

• Results of building the Panama Canal

Started the aircraft industry

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

New methods of mass production helped the Industrial Revolution by

• making products more expensive

• making products more cheaply and quickly

• making products more slowly

• making products by highly skilled workers

A reason why Congress was willing to declare war on Spain

• to increase travel to Guam

• to show American power

• to help with the revolution in Panama

• to help with trade in the Far East

How did Yellow Journalism affect how Americans felt about the Spanish American war?

• It made people love Spain.

• It had no affect on Americans.

• It helped us work out our problems with Spain.

• It made people angry at the rule of colonial Spain.

How did Big Business affect the Industrial Revolution?

• encouraged new technology to be invented

• they didn't use new technology

• they didn't hire immigrants

• Big Business failed because of immigrants