This industrialist used the principles of efficiency when developing the assembly line, which he used in his automobile factories.
Who is Henry Ford?
100
This is the term used when one company controls all of the business in a given industry. Consumers have no choice but to use that company.
What is a monopoly?
100
This is the term given to groups of workers who join together to fight to protect their rights in the workplace.
What are unions?
100
New immigrants traveled to America in this part of a ship, typically reserved for cattle.
What is steerage?
100
This is the term for when children are required to go to school.
What is compulsory education?
200
This person invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
This is a business owned by a group of investors.
What is a corporation?
200
When a fire broke out at this factory, over 100 employees died because managers had locked factory doors from the outside.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
200
This is the process of joining a new culture.
What is assimilation?
200
Thanks to compulsory education, this increased drastically during the age of industry.
What is literacy?
300
This banker invested in failing corporations so that he could make a large profit when they became successful.
Who is JP Morgan?
300
This is the name given to a group of companies that is ran by a single board of directors.
What is a trust?
300
This gives someone the sole right to make and sell an invention.
What is a patent?
300
Many immigrants moved into these cramped buildings that had little sunlight and poor hygiene.
What are tenements?
300
This is the practice of using sensational headlines in order to sell newspapers.
What is yellow journalism?
400
This person formed the Standard Oil Trust in order to take control of the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
This is the idea that stronger companies will survive over weaker companies. It supports the idea that big businesses should be allowed to do whatever they want.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
This labor union only admitted skilled workers, thinking that skilled workers have more bargaining power.
What is the AFL (American Federation of Labor)?
400
List three reasons immigrants came to the US during the age of industry.
What is for jobs, peace, and religious freedom?
400
This writer practiced realism in his novel Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
500
At one point, this person controlled businesses in each process of the railroad industry, including steel mills, railroads, and shipping lines.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
This allows different businesses to compete in the same industry. It means that consumers have a choice in who they buy from.
What is free enterprise?
500
When the owner of a railroad car company cut his employee's pay by 25% but kept housing costs the same, this strike occurred.
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
These people opposed immigration because they wanted to preserve American culture.
What are nativists?
500
This publisher popularized yellow journalism when he purchased the New York World.