What is a person who starts a business (usually fronts the money for it)
100
Why did the United State's population triple after 1865?
What is immigrants coming to America
100
Which Captain of Industry made his riches in the shipping and railroads business?
What is Cornelius Vanderbilt
100
Which city and state is known for steel?
What is Pittsburgh, PA
100
Which two immigrant groups were discriminated against during Industrialization?
What is Chinese and Irish
200
What does the word Agricultural mean?
What is farming or farm area
200
What is an example of how industrialization provided access to consumer goods?
What is mail order
200
Which Captain of Industry made cars affordable by using the assembly line?
What is Henry Ford
200
Which city and state is known for meatpacking?
What is Chicago, Illinois
200
Name the five reasons for Westward Expansion
What is land (homestead act), new opportunities for former slaves (exodusters), gold/wealth, adventure, technological advances (transcontinental railroad)
300
What does the word Urbanization mean?
What is the act of building up cities
300
What is an example of mechanization and how did it change life during Industrialization?
What is the reaper could do the work of 10 men on farms
300
Which Captain of Industry was known for using vertical integration when owning steel mills in Pittsburgh?
What is Andrew Carnegie
300
Which area of the United States was known for Textiles (clothing)?
What is New England
300
This group of people were discriminated against and treated poorly during Westward Expansion. They did not gain citizenship in the United States until 1924.
What is American Indians
400
What is the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery/.
What is mass production
400
Describe what lower cost production means.
What is The lower it costs to produce something, the less the company can charge. More people can buy it and the company makes more $
400
Which captain of Industry is known for having a monopoly in the oil company?
What is John D. Rockefeller
400
Name three negative affects of Industrialization
What is long hours, low wages, unsafe conditions and child labor
400
What happened as a result of the end of Reconstruction in 1877?
What is Federal (Northern) troops were removed from the South.
500
An illegal combination of industrial or commercial companies in which the stock of the constituent companies is controlled by a central board of trustees, thus making it possible to manage the companies so as to minimize production costs, control prices, eliminate competition, etc.
What is a trust
500
Access to raw materials and energy, inventions, financial resources, and availability of workforce to due immigration are reasons for?
What is factors resulting in the growth of big business
500
What are the Reasons for the Rise and Prosperity of Big Business, Captains of Industry, Captains of Industry, Lower-Cost Production
What is National markets created by transportation advances,
500
What is the name of an organization that protects the common worker?
What is Labor Union
500
After the Civil War, the United States transformed from an _____________ to an ___________________society.