I started as a railroad worker, became the manager, and eventually went on to purchase a steel company making it the largest producer of steel in the world.
Andrew Carnegie
100
Total ownership of a product or service.
Monopoly
100
The Chinese Exclusion Act is an example of ___________ and the feeling in the country to not allow more foreigners in to the borders.
Racism
100
What types of things, that you normally wouldn't eat, does the FDA allow in food today?
Rats, insects, feces, etc.
100
What was the first thing that immigrants saw when they arrived in America on the East Coast?
The Statue of Liberty
200
I was the first person to have great success at vertical integration in my oil business.
John D. Rockefeller
200
A period of rapid growth in the United States' manufacturing during the late 1800s.
The Second Industrial Revolution
200
What were the two main types of European immigrants that came to America?
Irish and Italian
200
How did the author of The Jungle get his information?
He went undercover in a meat packing plant when he was a reporter.
200
When did the United States declare its independence?
1776
300
I was President of the Central and Southern Pacific Railroad and later started a university in California.
Leland Stanford
300
Housing that was extremely poorly built, was susceptible to fires, and the main purpose of which was to cram as many people into a building as possible.
Dumbbell tenements
300
What was the name of the checkpoint where immigrants went before they were allowed into New York?
Ellis Island
300
The book, The Jungle, opening America's eyes to that problems of what?
The terrible conditions of workers and food sanitation in factories.
300
Describe what city life was like in the early 20th century?
Correct!
400
I was the inventor of electricity.
Thomas Edison
400
Give an example of vertical integration
Correct!
400
How did immigrants come across to America?
By boat, usually in the steerage of the ship.
400
What type of factory was the novel The Jungle, set in?
A meat packing plant
400
What is Mr. D's main nationality?
Italian
500
I invented the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
500
Give an example of horizontal integration
Correct!
500
What West Coast city did Chinese people come to when they entered the United States?
San Francisco
500
Who was the author who wrote the novel, The Jungle?
Upton Sinclair
500
Who was a Giant of Capitalism that perfected horizontal integration in his automobile industry?