Industrial innovations
Who invented the telephone, revolutionizing communication across long distances?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
If Apple has control over hardware and software design, key component manufacturing, and retail sales through its own stores would that be a vertical or horizontal integration?
Vertical intergration
During the Homestead strike, what did the strikers do that caused them to loose community support?
Attempt to assassinate owner, Henry Clay Frick
Why were standardized time zones established across the country in 1883
To help run the railroad system
What theory, applied to society, justified economic inequality by suggesting that stronger individuals or businesses would naturally thrive while weaker ones would fail?
Social Darwinism
What process allowed for the mass production of steel by removing impurities from iron?
The Bessemer Process
Who was the head of Standard Oil, one of the wealthiest and most powerful industrialists in U.S. history?
John D. Rockefeller
What was the result of the Pullman Strike of 1894?
Either
Labor day became federal holiday or violence occurred leading to deaths of strikers
What did the government do in order to get businesses to build the transcontinental railroad?
Gave away huge land grants
What was the name of the act that required Native Americans to abandon their tribal affiliations and adopt American cultural norms in exchange for U.S. citizenship?
The Dawes Act
What innovation did Edwin L. Drake introduce that made oil extraction more efficient?
The use of a steam engine to drill for oil
Who bought out Carnegie Steel to become the world's largest steel industry owner?
J.P. Morgan
Who was known as “the most dangerous woman in America” for her powerful union organizing efforts?
Mother Jones
Why was steel so important (what infrastructures did steel make)?
Skyscrapers, Bridges and railroad tracks
Why are monopolies seen as bad?
What invention by Thomas Edison created a demand for electric power and allowed longer work hours?
The light bulb and electrical distribution system
What is the economic practice called where the government imposes minimal taxes and regulations on businesses?
Laissez-faire
What key issue did labor unions address during the late 19th century?
Poor working conditions, long hours, and low pay
What lawsuit limited interstate trade and transportation to only Congress domain?
Who proposed the theory of biological evolution and natural selection, which was later misapplied to justify economic inequality
Charles Darwin
In what state did the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads meet, completing the first transcontinental railroad in 1869?
Utah (at Promontory Point)
Which U.S. president became known as a “trustbuster” for breaking up large monopolies?
Theodore Roosevelt
What was the name of the legislation enacted in 1890 to prevent monopolies and promote competition in the marketplace?
The Sherman Antitrust Act
Which government act in 1887 regulated railroad rates and practices to prevent monopolistic control?
The Interstate Commerce Act
What economic theory suggests minimal government intervention in business, allowing markets to regulate themselves?
Laissez-faire