Technology and Industrial Growth
The Rise of Big Business
The Organized Labor Movement
Various Categories I
Various Categories II
100
People who invest money in a product or enterprise in order to make a profit.
What are entrepeneurs?
100
A number of people sharing the ownership of a business.
What is a corporation?
100
Housing in communities for laborers.
What are company towns?
100
Name a positive aspect of nuclear energy.
What is electricity?
100
Delegates from 27 countries divided the globe into _____ time zones.
What are 24 time zones?
200
The government encouraged __________ to meet the increasing demand for labor in the nation's factories. (DOUBLE BONUS)
What is immigration?
200
Complete control of a product or service.
What is monopoly?
200
People who would be willing to take any type of job.
Who are immigrants?
200
Name a negative aspect of nuclear energy.
What is generates the most toxic and long-lived substances known to humans, grievous threat to the health of humans and to the wider biosphere?
200
Location of the Brooklyn bridge.
What is New York?
300
It is a grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time.
What is a patent?
300
Name an oil tycoon during the 1800s.
Who is Rockefeller?
300
Name two working conditions that affected families.
What are company stores (employers were forced to buy their food in these places and sold at high interests), employers held their jobs (wage slavery), ethnic competition and distrust?
300
ICC stands up for ________.
What is Interstate Commerce Commission?
300
Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally. (TRIPLE BONUS)
What are protective tariffs?
400
Name three major inventions of the 1800s.
What are the telegraph, sewing machine, safety elevator, light bulb, steam furnace?
400
Explain horizontal integration.
What is the system of consolidating many firms in the same business?
400
Period of time workers had to work.
What are 12 hours a day, 6 days a week?
400
Concept known for gaining control of the many different businesses that make up all phases of a product's development.
What is vertical integration?
400
The country's growth was due to the vast supply of _____.
What are natural resources?
500
The key role in transforming American industries and businesses.
What are railroads?
500
Theory applied to the rough-and-tumble world of American capitalism.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
The Pullman Strike escalated and halted what two aspects.
What are railroad traffic and mail delivery?
500
Name some of the changes of how industry altered American lives.
What are farms that became mechanized (fewer farm laborers needed to feed the nation), out-of-work farmers and their families moved to urban areas to find work, especially in the north, many moved to manufacturing centers (factories/industries), new urban dwellers had easy access to clothing and supplies, faced higher costs of living, performed repetitive work in factories?
500
Explain the "gospel of wealth", popular idea by Andrew Carnegie.
What is the right to accumulate as much wealth as they could, but also having the responsibility to give it away?
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