Factory Life
To help support the income of their parents, these people were forced to work dangerous entry-level factory jobs.
What are children/minors?
The transcontinental railroad connected these two geographical regions.
What are the east and west coast of the US.
An oligopoly is an industry dominated by a few large companies. A monopoly is an industry dominated by ______.
What is one large company?
Industrial growth in the US economy led to a concentration of wealth in the hands of these enterprising individuals.
What are industrialists/Robber Barons/Captains of Industry?
Edwin L. Drake of the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company pioneered this technique for obtaining oil.
What is drilling it out of the ground?
Don't lose a finger! Working conditions in early industrial factories were often ____.
What is dangerous.
The phonograph, telephone, and light bulb were inventions from the mind of this accomplished Ohioan.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Instead of negotiating with labor leaders, Industrialists could get rid of these troublesome employees by _______.
What is firing them?
Without the reinforced steel created in this process, there would be no skyscrapers.
What is the Bessemer process?
The events at Homestead, PA and the Pullman Palace Car Company are examples of this type of social unrest.
What are industrial strikes/organized strikes?
This invention by Samuel Morse helped start a coast-to-coast communications revolution.
What is the telegraph?
According to economies of scale, an increase in production will lead to a decrease in _____.
What are prices?
In a rare show of philanthropy, Andrew Carnegie built these temples of knowledge in cities all around the US.
What are libraries?
This term refers to the process by which workers negotiate with employers for better working conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
This type of intellectual property law protects inventors from having their ideas stolen.
What are patents?
This 1890 law tried to limit the amount of control a business could have over an industry.
It's all about efficiency! The separation of tasks in the manufacturing process is called this.
What is the division of labor?
Don't crash! The transcontinental railroad demonstrated the need for this organized system of measure. Hint: there are four of these in the contiguous United States.
What are time zones?
If you were an Industrialist, you might ascribe to this pseudo-science that says people in a society are subject to the same evolutionary laws of selection as plants and animals.
What is social Darwinism?