Key People of 1800s Industrialism
Key Terms
The Rise of Big Business
Reconstruction
Colonization
100
The head of the Standard Oil Company of the 1800s, who utilized horizontal integration.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
100
The term used to describe people coming to America, from other countries, between 1851 and 1900, for reasons such as crop failure, land and job shortages, relief from religious and political persecution.
What is immigration?
100
A company that controls or dominates an industry.
What is a monopoly?
100
The war that started to preserve the Union, but slavery soon became the central issue.
What is the Civil War ?
100
The war in which the French and Indians were allied against the British and colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
200
The author who coined the term "Gilded Age".
Who is Mark Twain?
200
The economic theory of survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
Production and consumption of goods and services.
What is the economy?
200
Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
The first charter of government that did not work due to a weak central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
300
He urged African Americans to accept discrimination and elevated themselves through hard work.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
Time period between the Civil War and the turn of the century when the economy changed from farming to manufacturing.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
Control over an entire industry.
What is a monopoly.
300
The Supreme Court decision that said it was not a violation of the Constitution to racially segregate.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
The first successful U.S. settlement
What is Jamestown?
400
A person who donates time, money, experience, skills or talent to help create a better world.
What is a philanthropist?
400
A term used to describe business people who employ ruthless business tactics against their competitors.
What is a robber baron?
400
This cartoon portrays the idea that the Standard Oil Company is a_________________.
What is a harmful monopoly?
400
Laws that promoted segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
400
Colonists protest their taxes by disguising themselves as Native Americans, boarding a ship, and throwing tea into the Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
500
He was in the steel industry and utilized vertical integration.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
An economic theory that the market functions best when the government does not interfere.
What is laissez-faire capitalism.
500
When a company owns two or more stages of production.
What is vertical integration?
500
The president for the Confederacy.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
The war in which the colonists declare their independence from Great Britain.
What is the American Revolution?