The practice of combining seperate companies into one.
What is consolidation?
100
A production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as the item passes before him or her.
What is an assembly line?
100
The use of money to benifit the community.
What is philanthropy?
100
Crowded urban factories with poor conditions.
What are sweatshops?
100
Discussion question: (This is backwards from Jeopardy)
What made the railroad the nations largest industry?
Answers will vary.
200
Originaly, what railroad tracks were made of.
What is iron?
200
A car that anyone could afford to buy, which anyone could drive, and which almost anyone could keep.
What is the Model- T Ford?
200
The integration method that John D. Rockafeller used to build his empire.
What is horizontal integration?
200
An organization of workers with the same skill or trade.
What are trade unions?
200
This is a discusion question (not backwards.)
How did the Model- T revolutionize transportation in the early 1900's?
Answers will vary.
300
The amount (in miles) of train tracks laid by 1900.
What is 250,000 miles of train tracks?
300
The inventor of the electric light bulb and the power plant.
Who was Thomas Edison?
300
The process of aquiring companies that provide the equipment and services you need.
What is vertical integration?
300
A secret organization of African Americans, women, immigrants, and men who fought for better conidtions and pay in the work place.
What are the Knights of Labor?
300
Backwards from Jeopardy....
Explain the difference between horizontal and vertical integration. Who used each method.
Vertical- A.C.
horizontal- J.D.R.
400
By the late 1880's, most railroad companies had adopted a common width of railroad track that allowed for faster shipment at a lower cost
What is standard gauge
400
The INVENTOR of a machine that used code to transmit messages that were interpreted by operators.
Who is Samuel Morse?
400
A company that has almost total control of it's industry.
What is a monopoly?
400
A woman who fought for workers rights (including those for women) for over 50 years.
Who is "Mother Jones" or Mary Harris Jones?
400
backwards from Jeopardy...
How were working conditions and salaries unsatisfactory for many people during the lates 1800's?
answers will vary
500
Two technological advancements in railroad transportation.
standard gauge, air brakes, Pullman sleeping car, Janney car couplers, refrigerated car
500
This man was responsible for laying the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866.
Who was Cyrus Field?
500
The three factors of production.
What is land, labor, and capital?
500
Two conditions someone fighting for child labor laws would demand.
What are equal pay, safe working conditions, minimum age requirements, reduced hours.
500
backwards from Jeopardy
Give examples of the three factors of production.