People 1
Man credited with inventing the lightbulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera.
Who is Thomas Edison?
An American manufacturer who made the automobile available to millions.
Who is Henry Ford?
A person who opposes all forms of government.
What is an anarchist?
Businesses owned by many investors.
What are corporations?
Writers who try to show life as it is.
What are realists?
Man credited with inventing the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
A Hungarian immigrant who created the first modern, mass circulation newspaper after buying the New York World and cutting prices to make it affordable.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt.
What is an assembly line?
A group of corporations run by a single board or directors.
What is a trust?
A center offering help to the urban poor.
What is a settlement house?
Formed the AFL in Ohio.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
A popular author who went by Samual Clemens and wrote Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
The requirement that children should attend school up to a certain age.
What is compulsory education?
Someone who sets up businesses to make a profit.
What is an entrepreneur?
Large compartments that usually held cattle that were used in the immigrant passage to America.
What is steerage?
A reformer who opened Hull House in 1889.
Who is Jane Addams?
Giant of the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The process of becoming part of another culture.
What is assimilation?
A company that controls most or all business in a particular industry.
What is a monopoly?
A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention.
What is a patent?
Made the first gas powered plane. For full points you need the full name(s).
Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
Giant of the oil industry. For full points, you need the full name.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group.
What is collective bargaining?
The system in which privately owned businesses compete freely.
What is free enterprise?
A term used to describe the sensational reporting style. To get full points, also mention how the term was created.
What is yellow journalism and the Yellow Kid cartoon? (The Yellow Kid was a cartoon and its likeness could help sell anything)