Technology & Industrial Growth
These are people who invest money in a product or enterprise in order to make a profit.
Who are entrepreneurs?
In this, a number of people share ownership of a business.
What is a corporation?
These were dirty workhouses
What are sweatshops?
This is when a business buys out or merges with another like it, in order to make more money with less risk
What is horizontal integration?
Spongebob and Squidward did this when Mr. Krabs made them work too much for too little pay
They went on strike
These policies allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulation. (hint: "let it be")
What are laissez-faire policies?
Businesses would do this to get complete control of a product or service by buying out others like it
What is a monopoly?
By doing this, workers would agree to cease work until certain demands were met
What is a strike?
This is when a business controls all aspects of production and distribution
What is vertical integration?
This rapper will apparently rat anyone and everyone out
Who is 6ix9ine?
These were used to transport goods from businesses quickly, efficiently, and further than ever before.
What are railroads?
This belief has to do with "survival of the fittest"
What is Social Darwinism?
This, unlike capitalism, favors public control of property and income.
What is socialism?
This riot resulted in the deaths of many people and police officers, and then had a sham of a trial.
What was the Haymarket Square Riot?
This singer was known for hits such as "Como La Flor" and "Dreaming of You"
Who was Selena?
This is a grant by the government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time.
What is a patent?
This person was an oil tycoon
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This group of people would often work for low wages and take any job
What are immigrants?
People lived in these isolated communities near their workplaces.
What were company towns?
This actor has played Jackie Robinson, James Brown, and Black Panther
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
This person is credited with inventing the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
This act outlwed any trust that operated "in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states"
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This union accepted anyone, including African Americans
Who were the Knights of Labor?
This man was a steel tycoon
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Complete the Mean Girls quote:
One time she __________ me in the face. It was ____________.
punched, awesome