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100
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
100
New technology in the steel industry in the late 1800s increased productivity in this industry.
railroad industry
100
How did the labor force change during the Second Industrial Revolution?
Machines eliminated the jobs of many skilled craftspeople.
100
How did Andrew Carnegie deal with striking union workers at his Pennsylvania steel factory in 1892?
Carnegie locked workers out of the factory and hired strike breakers.
100
Describe collective bargaining.
Collective bargaining is the idea that laborers acting together have greater success in negotiating with management.
200
This invention led to increased demand for oil.
airplane
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Who are stockholders?
Stockholders own a corporation, but they do not make its day-to-day business decisions.
200
Describe an assembly line.
Workers repeat the same steps over and over again.
200
Describe the Homestead Strike.
Homestead Strike was against the Carnegie Steel Company's plan to cut jobs.
200
Why was there rapid city growth during this time?
expansion of the railroads across the United States
300
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
300
Describe horizontal integration. Who used this business practice?
Horizontal integration is owning all the businesses in a certain field. John D. Rockefeller
300
Who was the leader of the Knights of Labor?
Terence V. Powderly
300
Describe the event that took place at Haymarket Square.
At a protest in Chicago's Haymarket Square, a bomb killed eight police officers and injured many others.
300
Describe the Sherman Antitrust Act.
A law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained free trade.
400
Who built a lightweight airplane that ran on a gas-powered engine?
Orville Wright
400
Who owned businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process in his industry?
Andrew Carnegie
400
Who was Samuel Gompers?
Gompers led the American Federation of Labor.
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY Describe the Bessemer process.
The process made steel production quicker and cheaper, which created a booming railroad industry.
400
Who was Mary Harris Jones?
Mary Harris Jones worked for better conditions for miners and helped educate workers.
500
How did the telegraph differ from the telephone?
The telegraph could carry only written messages.
500
This person made manufacturing more efficient with the moving assembly line.
Henry Ford
500
This was the first national labor union.
Knights of Labor
500
Describe the Pullman Strike.
Workers stopped traffic on many railroad lines until the federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs.
500
Describe a monopoly.
A monopoly is total ownership of a product or service.