What is a stockholder?
People who own the corporation because they own shares of ownership called stock.
How does a monopoly work?
An industrialist or company owns/controls all production and sales of a particular product or service.
How long did laborers usually work...
in a day?
in a week?
Worked 10-12 hrs a day, 6 days a week
The Model-T
(Half points if you said single cylinder combustion engine, because he used/improved one, but did not actually create the combustion engine).
Steam Power
What is capitalism?
An economic system where the marketplace (people) decide what will be made and sold.
Robber Baron
Why did the Homestead Strike happen?
It was a strike at Carnegie’s steel plant because of cut wages.
It made the process faster because it condensed the process and made it so individual workers do single parts rather than have to create the entire product themselves.
Electricity
and/or
Oil Power
How does competition work?
Various participants (entrepreneurs) provide their goods and services skillfully and cheaply.
(Philanthropy)
(Half if you said Captain of Industry)
Where did many of the new laborers/workers during the Industrial Revolution come from?
Immigrants (Foreign Countries)
and/or
Former Slaves from the South
and/or
City People (Urban areas)
What are textiles?
A type of cloth or woven fabric.
What is Industrial Revolution?
A shift to large scale production due to advances in tech and labor force.
Disney owns multiple media and entertainment companies such as ESPN, Pixar, and Marvel. This is an example of:
Horizontal Integration
Captain of Industry
3 common accidents/injuries that could happen in the work place:
Steel = burns from liquid steel spills
Coal miners = cave-ins and dust
Textile workers = damaged lungs
Garment workers = ruined eyesight, firetraps
The Conveyor Belt
An organization or business owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a single person.
A corporation
How did being a banker help J. P. Morgan enter the manufacturing/ industry game?
A banker who created U.S. Steel by buying out Carnegie.
Bought stock in troubled corporations, but sometimes eliminated competition of these businesses they bought
2 Pros of a Labor Union:
2 Cons of a Labor Union:
Pros: Help secure...
Working Conditions, Shorter Hours, Higher Wages, From being fired randomly, From harassment
What product replaced whale oil?
Why was it better?
Kerosene
Because it was far cheaper to make, it smelt better, and burned longer.
Why was child labor often seen during the Industrial Revolution?
Provide 2 reasons.
Multiple answers accepted, but mostly because of their small stature or the fact that families needed their children to chip in for funds.