The Rise of Industry
Railroads/Government
Big Business
Unions/Miscellaneous
People
100
Way to produce products where each worker does one part of the job.
What is the assembly line?
100
Time zones
What are regions where the same time is kept - there are four in the United States.
100
People who risk their capital in organizing and running a business.
What is an entrepreneur?
100
Craft workers began to form these groups of workers with specific skills
What is a trade union
100
He was a Scottish immigrant who invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
200
The father of scientific management
Who is Fredrick Winslow Taylor
200
Wages, shipping charges, and supplies are all examples of what
What is fixed costs
200
The rapid expansion of industry required a large work force - true or false
What is true
200
What companies would often use if workers formed a union
What is a lockout
200
His laboratory was located in Menlo Park, New Jersey. He was the inventor of the phonograph and lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison
300
Building material that revolutionized building - result of the Bessemer process.
What is steel
300
Many middle class Americans experienced greater comforts and conveniences in daily life due to the growth of industry - true or false
What is true
300
He built many oil refineries and founded Standard Oil
Who is John D. Rockefeller
300
when a single company achieves conrol of an entire market
What is a monolopy
300
He was a successful railroad consolidator. By 1869, he had purchased and merged three short New York railroads to form the New York Central.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt
400
Buying up companies that produce the same product as you do.
What is horizontal integration
400
Government view of business - "let people do as they choose"
What is laissez-faire
400
There were many laws regulating child labor - true or false
What is false
400
Minority and immigrant laborers were employed in mostly unskilled jobs - true or false
True
400
Utilized the assembly line to reduce the cost of the product his company made.
Who is Henry Ford
500
Company that owns all of the different buinesses on which it depends for its operation?
What is vertical integration
500
This act provided for the construction of a transcontinental railroad by two corporations.
What is Pacific Railway Act
500
The cost of manufacturing is decreased by producing goods quickly in large quantities.
What is economies of scale
500
United all workers in a particular industry
What is Industrial unions
500
Founded a steel company in Pittsburg
Who is Andrew Carnegie
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