Capitalism
This is the name for a group of companies that controls an industry and its prices by eliminating competition.
What is a Trust?
(Cartel)
This company adopted innovations that made it easier for consumers to purchase products from companies. The parent company of this retailer filed for bankruptcy in October of 2018.
What is Sears?
This is a company that controls an industry and its prices by eliminating competition.
What is a monopoly?
This was the name for a second set of innovations that transformed the economies and societies of Western nations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
William Seward authorized the purchase of this segment of land from Russia in the face of much domestic criticism during the mid-nineteenth century.
What is Alaska?
This was the primary driving force in the reduction of grain prices in late nineteenth century?
What is overproduction?
(Surplus)
This is the name of the conflict in which the United States intervened on behalf of the independence movement for Cuba and one the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from the Spanish Empire.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Provide two new innovations that made it easier for consumers to purchase products from companies.
What are catalogs and department stores?
This the name of the process that greatly decreased the time and production costs for steel production.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Provide the name of the canal constructed by the United States and Central America to connect the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This is the term used to describe an informal political group or party that supports individuals elected to office by listening to constituents and lobbying on their behalf-- often when benefiting personally.
What are political machines?
This was the name of the late nineteenth century political party that attempted to improve the situation for farmers (this is also the last major organized political effort acting solely on behalf of farmers).
What is the Populist Party?
Provide the two primary unions started in the 1860s that failed because of frequent wildcat strikes, too many demands, and the inability to unify skilled and unskilled laborers.
What are the National Labor Union and Knights of Labor?
Provide the two nineteenth century railroad company owners who grew by purchasing smaller rental companies-- per Mr. Simmons.
Who are Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Thanks, Andy! This is a new type of ship that allowed much larger amounts of cargo to be transported much more rapidly than wooden ships.
What are Steel Ships?
Name the best example of a boss that headed the type of entity that would match the description of a political machine.
Who is Boss Tweed?
This is the name of the amendment in which the United States had the rights to intervene in Cuba on behalf of maintaining stability for US businesses, as well as establishing a military base in Guantánamo Bay.
What is the Platt Amendment?
Name the collective group of farmers called that successfully procured discounts on farm machinery, set a max price and grain storage, and a cash only storage policy free of financing or price swindling.
What is The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry?
(The Grange)
This is the court case in 1877 set the max price on grain storage.
What is Munn versus Illinois?
This is the event in 1893 that caused an economic downturn in the United States.
What is the Panic of 1893?
This is the term used to describe a collusive alliance between political leaders and businessmen in which politicians accept bribes or campaign money in return for financial favors or contracts to the businessman or their company.
What is Crony Capitalism?
Daily Double!
This was the name of the native Hawaiian Queen that was overthrown in a coup as Hawaii was later annexed by the United States.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani.
This was a worker union, formed in 1886 under Samuel Gompers, was moderately successful in unifying skilled and unskilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
State a primary consequence for farmers defaulting on payments for their lands or equipment to banks or other financiers-- more than one correct answer.
What is foreclosure?
(Bankruptcy, Repossession, Loss of Land, Loss of Assets, or Loss of Livelihood)
Name two communication innovations that transformed nineteenth century society.
What are the telegraph and telephone?