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What is a Robber-Baron?
A person that has become rich through ruthless and unethical business practices
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True or False- Big Business dominated the economy in the late 1800s
True
100
Who invented the lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
100
What is another name for business owner
Entrepreneur
100
What is a person who gives away their money to charities.
A Philantropist
200
Who is this? (Standard Oil)
John D. Rockefeller
200
What is vertical integration?
Buying out raw material producers and distributors.
200
Who invented the Model T car?
Henry Ford
200
Where 146 women burned to death... :( (not a party)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
200
What are three (3) inventions from the late 1800s?
Winchester Repeating Rifle, Phonograph, Sewing machine,Telegraph, Telephone, Steam Train, Electricity/Light bulb, Photography, Typewriter, Barbed wire.
300
Who is this? (Steel)
Andrew Carnegie
300
What is horizontal integration?
Merging companies producing similar products.
300
What were the names of the brothers that flew the first plane?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
300
Believed Communism would eventually win against Capitalism
Karl Marx
300
What is one way industrialization affected agriculture?
It became more mechanized and able to produce better results.
400
Who is this? (Railroad)
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
400
What is the approach called where the government takes a “hands-off” approach to business?
Laissez-Faire
400
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
400
Woman who advocated for child labor to end.
Mother Jones
400
What country did the Industrial Revolution start in?
Great Britain
500
Who is this? (Banking/Financier)
J.P. Morgan
500
What is social darwinism?
Belief that the wealthy have the right to control society.
500
Where the world’s 1st research lab was
Menlo Park
500
Believed in socialism
Eugene V. Debs
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What did Social Darwinism discourage?
Government Regulation