Foundations for Economic Growth
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What did the United States have an abundance of that made manufacturing during the second industrial revolution possible?
What is natural resources
100
What was the last name of the brothers that developed the first successful airplane?
What is the Wright brothers
100
Who is the man who started with refining oil and later formed a monopoly becoming one of the richest men in U.S. history?
Who is John D. Rockefeller
100
Who brought the railroad to the east coast of Florida and is called the "Father of Miami"?
Who is Henry Flagler
100
Who brought the railroad to the west coast of Florida and opened the Tampa Bay Hotel?
Who is Henry Plant
200
What type of market system do we have in the U.S.?
What is the free enterprise/market system
200
What is the name of the process that turns iron into steel cheaply?
What is the Bessemer Process
200
Who is the man who used the Bessemer Process and built a huge steel plant in Pittsburg Pennsylvania?
Who is Andrew Carnegie
200
What is the name of a business that handles only one aspect of a business? Example Fed Ex shipping
Horizontal Integration
200
What is another name for a company that buys out its competitors and then controls the industry and raises prices to consumers?
What is a monoploiy
300
What two types of power were developed during the first industrial revolution?
What is waterpower and steam power
300
What invention did Samuel Morse invent that used morse code to send messages?
What is the telegraph
300
Who is the man who was king of banking and finance in the late 1800's and early 1900's whose name is still associated with banking today?
Who is J.P. Morgan
300
What is the name for when a company uses two or more aspects of manufacturing such as production and shipping and distribution?
What is vertical integration
300
What is another name for a monopoly?
What is a trust
400
What is the name of a person who takes a risk to start up a business?
What is an entrepreneur
400
Who was the African American inventor who came up with cosmetics significantly designed for African American women?
Who is Madame C.J. Walker
400
Who is the man who made the car affordable to everyday Americans by using the assembly line?
Who is Henry Ford
400
In this political cartoon it is implying that the monopolies are more powerful than the_________.
What is government/Senate
400
What is the name of the act that made monopolies illegal?
What is Sherman Antitrust Act
500
After the Civil War the U.S. switched from an agrarian society to an _____________ society.
What is industrial
500
Who was the first African American women to receive a patent for a fold away bed tucked into a desk?
Who is Sarah Goode
500
Who is the man who was a giant in shipping and railroads and a SEC university is named after him today?
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt
500
What is the name of a company that is recognized by the federal government by law and has stockholders, a board of directors, general managers and employees?
What is a corporation
500
Who and what is being represented in this political cartoon? You must have both answers for credit?
Who is John D. Rockefeller and vertical integration