This Pennsylvania steel mill was home to a large strike. Some strikers lost their lives when the "strike breaking" Pinkerton's where hired by Andrew Carnegie to stop the strike. Carnegie tried to lock the workers out of his factory.
What is the Homestead Strike?
100
In Ford's factories workers specialized in specific tasks which they repeated over and over. Which caused workers to become tired, bored and more likely to become _____________.
What is injured?
100
Carnegie used the type of integration to structure his business.
What is vertical integration?
100
This invention paved the way for new military tactics, faster travel, and a new division of the military. The Wright brothers are credited with its invention.
What is the airplane?
100
The first lightweight airplane was powered by a ___________ -powered engine.
What is gas or gasoline?
200
At this Chicago protest, a bomb killed eight police officer and injured many others.
What is Haymarket Square or Riot?
200
This practice used by organized labor helped to negotiate together. By asking for better pay, safer working conditions, and shorter hours as a group they eventual got what they asked for from their bosses.
What is collective bargaining?
200
Rockefeller used this type of integration to structure his business.
What is horizontal and vertical integration?
200
The use of these in many factories made human labor less important. Humans were still need in the factories, but not as many workers.
What are machines?
200
A large increase in the production of steel during the Second Industrial Revolution led to growth in what major industry?
1. textiles (fabric or garment making)
2. oil
3. railroads
4. electric
What is the railroad industry?
300
Leland Stanford built a college in this state after making his money in the railroad business.
What is California?
300
Andrew Carnegie was famous for being a philanthropist and for making his money in this industry?
What is What is the steel industry?
300
Workers joined groups to ask for shorter hours, safer working conditions, and no child labor. These groups were called __________?
What are unions?
300
The telegraph and the telephone are similar inventions. The main difference that the telephone can allow a person to speak to another person over long distances, while a telegraph can only send ______________.
What is written messages?
300
He wrote a book about labor practices encouraging managers to view their workers as interchangeable parts.
Who is Frederick W. Taylor?
400
Henry Ford built his factory in this state.
What is Michigan?
400
This oil businessman used horizontal and vertical integration to control the oil business.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
This government document made it illegal to create monopolies. The language was vague making it hard to enforce.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
This invention made it possible to read at night. Name the invention and its inventor.
What is the light bulb by Thomas Edison?
400
The idea that those who were "fittest" would be successful in business and life.
What is social Darwinism?
500
Cities, like Chicago, grew rapidly in the United States during the Second Industrial Revolution because _____________________?
What is the expansion of railroads and/or factories located near cities?
500
This was the leader of the Knights of Labor in 1879.
Who is Terence V. Powderly?
500
In a corporation these people own the business, but they do not make its day-to-day business decisions.
What are stockholders?
500
This invention made possible to talk over long distances. Name the invention and the inventor.
What is the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell?
500
This method for making steel was much more effective. It reduced the time for making steel to 20 minutes.