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A trust group is a group of companies managed by a single board of trustees.
What is true
100
Combining two or more companies into one
What is a merger
100
What is the name of a court order to stop labor unions from striking?
What is an injunction
100
Partial owners of a company
What are shareholders
100
What were three working conditions of factory workers in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
What were poor, unsafe, unhealthy, sweatshops, multiple accidents, long days, low wages.
200
The telephone and the telegraph greatly improved communication over a distance and further unified the nation.
What is True
200
Which inventor's most important invention was the electric lightbulb?
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
Separate companies became combined into larger companies
What is consolidated companies
200
Unions representing workers in talks with management
What is collective bargaining
200
The first assembly line produced
What is the Model T
300
Andrew Carnegie's steel company became powerful through a process called ____________ integration.
What is Vertical integration?
300
Why did the United States Attorney General Richard Olney order an injunction?
What was to stop the Pullman Strike
300
If a factory experienced losses, what would happen to the wages of employees?
What is they would lessen or be reduced
300
Complete control of an industry
What is a monopoly?
300
The people who own a company
What are stockholders?
400
What allowed American industry to expand into the western part of the country?
What are railroads?
400
How were railroad barons created?
What is by consolidating many small companies
400
Railroad work song
What is "John Henry"
400
What connected the United States and Europe for the first time in 1866?
What is the transatlantic telegraph cable?
400
First in flight
Who are the Wright Brothers?
500
Rebates were often given to factory workers instead of regular pay.
What is false
500
Who was the philanthropist who built more than 2,000 libraries worldwide
Who is Andrew Carnegie
500
A stockholder's share of a company's profits
What is a dividened
500
What three industries grew as a result of demand for their products by the railroads?
What are steel, lumber, and coal?
500
How did the telephone change American life? Three ways
What is Increased communication, quicker communication/ messages, connected family and friends, business grew, reduced need for travel, spread ideas