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Bonus
100
What were secret agreements between the railroad barons?
Pools
100
Who created the morse code?
Samuel Morse.
100
What are the three factors of production?
Land, labor, and capital
100
Define sweatshops
Crowded and dangerous urban factories.
100
Who created the Model T?
Henry Ford.
200
Who created refrigerated cars which allowed trains to carry meat and perishable goods over long distances?
Gustavus Swift
200
Who was the first to lay a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean?
Cyrus Field.
200
Define corporation
A company that sells shares, or stock, of its business to the public.
200
How long did industrial laborers work?
10 to 12 hours, six days a week.
200
How did railroad expansion affect the United States economy?
They made transportation of goods faster.
300
What is at least one thing railroads carried?
Iron ore, coal, timber, or manufactured goods
300
What did Alexander Graham Bell create?
The telephone.
300
What are shareholders?
Partial owners of a company
300
In July 1877, angry strikers did what?
They burned and destroyed railroad property.
300
How did the inventions of the late 1800s revolutionize society?
They impacted citizens everyday life and changed the way of goods and services were made, and it made a lot of money.
400
Define consolidation
The practice of combining separate companies
400
Who created the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
400
In 1859, Edwin L. Drake dug a well in Titusville, Pennsylvania and found what?
Petroleum
400
Define injunction
A court order
400
How did Americans build fortunes in the oil and steel industry?
Creating monopolies that could charge prices higher than costs and earn large profits and building railroads to make larger amounts of goods and transporting them faster.
500
The growing railroad network helped American industry expand into what area?
The West.
500
Who flew the first airplane?
The Wright Brothers
500
Who created the Standard Oil Company of Ohio?
John E. Rockefeller
500
By 1900, how many women had joined the industrial workforce?
Over 1 million
500
Why did workers form labor unions in the middle to late 1800s?
To demand better pay and better working conditions.