Vocabulary
Rise of Industry
Key People
Inventions
Rise of Industry 2
100
The railroad barons decided on 4' 8.5" for all tracks.
What is standard gauge?
100
America was dependent with the growth of this.
What is a railroads?
100
The person who made riding in trains comfortable.
Who is George Pullman?
100
The man who made the first gas powered vehicle.
What is Henry Ford?
100
The act of purchasing business that are competitors.
What is horizontal integration?
200
The combining of two or more business.
What is a merger?
200
Assisted in creating towns into major cities
What is railroads?
200
The creator of the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
The item that made trains safe and able to travel faster.
What is air brakes?
200
Due to the assembly line, products became this.
What is mass produced?
300
A discussion between a trade union and the empoyers
What is collective bargaining?
300
An encrypted method of communciation using dashes and dots in place of letters
What is Morse Code?
300
The man who found oil below the surface.
Who is Edwin Drake?
300
It was a cause of people become lazy on the job and no longer experts, yet increased production and profit for industries.
What is the assembly line?
300
Technology advancement in this method of transportation led to the decline of the use of canals and other waterways.
What are railroads?
400
A production system with machines arranged so that each person performs a task continuously as the item passes before him or her.
What is an assembly line?
400
The Bessemer Process revolutionized this industry.
Who is steel industry?
400
The man who monopolized the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
The group of people who supported the workforce in a particular industry and was their voice.
What is trade unions?
400
Method of communication first used most often by newspaper writers
What is the telegraph?
500
One person has total control of a type of industry
What is monopoly?
500
The industry that became the new gold.
What is the oil industry?
500
The man who dominated the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
The law that set federal standards on children's behalf in the workplace.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
500
The act of purchasing the companies that help provide all the goods and services.
What is vertical integration?
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