Inventions & Big Business
This inventor helped make electric lighting practical for homes and businesses.
Who is Thomas Edison
This term means the growth of cities as more people move into urban areas.
Urbanization
These organizations unite workers to fight for better wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions
What term describes the process of developing industries and using machines to produce goods?
What is industrialization
What type of business is owned by shareholders or investors?
What is a Corporation
This inventor created the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
These crowded apartment buildings often lacked clean water, fresh air, and adequate sanitation.
What are Tenements
This action occurs when workers refuse to work until employers address their demands.
What is a strike.
What is the term for a person who starts and organizes a business, often taking financial risks?
What is an entrepreneur.
What is it called when one company controls an entire industry or market?
What is a monopoly
This process made steel cheaper to produce and helped industry grow.
What is the Bessemer process
Name one reason people moved to industrial cities in the late 1800s.
What are factory jobs or better opportunities
This labor organization was founded in 1869 by Uriah Stephens.
What is the Knights of Labor
What term describes the growth of cities as more people move there to live and work?
Urbanization
What is the term for refusing to work until an employer meets workers' demands?
What is a strike
This manufacturing method uses a moving belt and workers who each perform specific tasks to make products quickly.
What is the Assembly line
Name two dangerous or unhealthy conditions workers faced in factories.
Overcrowding extreme temperatures, locked doors, or a lack of fire escapes.
This 1909 protest by thousands of New York garment workers became known as the 'Uprising of the 20,000.'
What was the garment workers strike
What term describes an economic policy that favors minimal government interference in business?
What is Laissez-faire
What is a group of companies organized under common control to limit competition called?
What is a trust
This term describes a business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock.
Corporation
In 1911, a deadly fire at this New York City clothing factory exposed the dangers of unsafe working conditions.
What is Triangle sweatshirt factory
Give one benefit and one cost of industrialization.
What are
cheaper manufactured goods and new inventions were benefits; unsafe workplaces and low wages were costs.
What do we call a group of workers organized to fight for better wages and working conditions?
What is a labor union
During industrialization, how could laissez-faire policies help businesses while also creating problems for workers?
Businesses had more freedom to operate and grow, but limited regulation could allow low wages and unsafe working conditions.