People
Vocabulary
Innovations
Numbers
Potpourri
100
A pioneer of the railroad industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
100
This is owned by shareholders.
What is a corporation?
100
Uriah Stephens founded a national union.
What is the Knights of Labor
100
Average working schedule for aHomestead steel mill employee.
What is 12 hours per day; 7 days a week
100
These people filled the thousands of new jobs created by growth in industry.
Who were new immigants?
200
He inventer the compressed air brake.
Who is George Westinghouse?
200
An economic system which calls for private businesses to run most industries.
What is capitalism?
200
Orville Wright did this?
What is piloted the first plane?
200
The average daily pay for a steel worker at the Homestead plant.
What is $2.50 per day.
200
This accelerated the development of a practical automobile.
What is innovations in oil refining?
300
He created sleeping cars, dining cars, and luxurious cars for trains.
Who is George Pullman?
300
A company completely dominates an industry.
What is a monopoly?
300
Charles and Frank Duryea built the first practical one.
What is automobile?
300
Between 1870 and1890 the number of female workers increased by how much?
What is it doubled.
300
The reason that department stores succeeed.
What is because they bought goods in bulk and therefore could sell them at low prices?
400
He made his fortune in the steel industry and donated money to build libraries.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
A group of companies that is controlled by a single group of business leaders.
What is a trust?
400
NOT one of Edison's invention at his lab in Menlo Park?
What is the telgraph?
400
Working conditions during the late 1800's.
What is long hours and low wages?
400
The Homestead strike resulted in this.
What is Labor unions losing power?
500
He created sleeping cars, dining cars, and luxurious train cars.
Who is George Pullman?
500
A manufacurers use of brand names, packaging, and advertisingto sell their products.
What is mass marketing?
500
Two successful mail-order companies.
What is Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck and Co.
500
Andrew Carnegie, who later became the richest man in the world, earned this amount on his first job.
What is $1.20 a week?
500
An example of this would be when a corporation controls iron and coal mines, steel refineries, and auto manufacturing and car dealerships.
What is vertical integration?
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