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Mixed Feelings
100
Thomas Alva Edison did not actually invent electricity but be did create this which allowed "his mother to see in her kitchen late at night".
What is the long lasting light bulb
100
A group of people who share ownership of a business.
What is a Corporation.
100
Places where workers in a business may be forced to live.
What are Company Towns
100
The federal government gives inventors the exclusive rights to develop, use, and sell a product for a specific length of time.
What is a Patent
100
Using this method of production, workers could produce large quantities of their products.
What is Mass Production
200
Thanks so Samuel Morse's invention, people were able to send messages via wire.
What is the telegraph
200
Buying smaller businesses to combine them to create one product/corporation.
What is horizontal integration.
200
As membership in labor unions rose across the country, workers began to protest the poor working conditions, long house, and low wages. This is the most common and effective form of protest.
What is a Strike
200
Small business leaders acquired this nickname because their industries were creating an "ever growing workforce" that would keep people employed and contributing to the economy and society.
What is Captains of Industry
200
These protected workers from their harsh employers.
What are Labor Unions.
300
His invention, the telephone, was patented in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
300
Capitalists earned this nickname because they were charging very high prices for their services and goods. This name has a historic root in the Gilded Age.
What is Robber Baron.
300
This craft union supported those workers who were in specific trades. Membership required paying a high price and the goals of the group were small scale, such as wages, length of the workday, and working conditions.
What is the American Federation of Labor.
300
This inventor developed technology to send electricity over long distances.
Who is George Westinghouse.
300
These family members were forced to go to work and do jobs such as fix inside of machines. This stunted their mental and physical growth.
Who are children.
400
Marconi's invention would be advanced by other inventors to create what we now know as the radio.
What is the telegraph
400
Mr. Miller owns a very large store/company. He wants to eliminate competition so he plans to exercise vertical integration. What is actually doing?
What is buying out the smaller businesses similar to his that create competition.
400
This secret society had its sights set on broad or wide-spreading social reforms (changes). It aimed to replace capitalism with cooperatives.
What is The Knights of Labor
400
In 1877, the Senate created this regulatory body that could oversee railroad operations. This body was limited in power but was the first of its kind.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission.
400
This banned any trust that operated “in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states.
What is The Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
500
These men piloted the first successful airplane flight in 1903.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright
500
The idea of "survival of the richest" or "natural selection" was applied to the human world of business by William Sumner.
What is Social Darwinism
500
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels explained their Socialist ideas in this treatise that denounced capitalism and predicted that workers would rebel against this form of economy and be in favor of a Socialist(equal) society.
What is The Communist Manifesto.
500
Protesting 8 - hour workdays, workers went on strike. In this instance, a bomb was thrown, killing dozens of people.
What is the Haymarket Riot.
500
This company laid off workers and reduced wages by 25%. The owner forced workers to live in the company town near Chicago. They controlled rent and price of goods.
What is the Pullman Palace Company.