Economy
What is a business that is owned by investors?
Corporation
What is a consumer?
Person who buys or uses goods and/or services.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
An industrialist and philanthropist who is known for founding the Standard Oil Company
What did Frank and Charles Duryea invent?
The first gasoline powered automobile.
A piece of cloth or woven fabric is called this..
A textile
What is an investor?
A. A person or organization that puts money into a business with the hope of earning a profit
B. A person who starts a business
C. A bank
A. A person or organization that puts money into a business with the hope of earning a profit
What is- The employees of a business or company
Human resources
Who is an American inventor and businessman, known for inventing the light bulb, motion picture camera, and phonograph?
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
1. Thomas Edison
Fill in the blank… William ______ Harvert was known for developing the nation's largest newspaper
Randolph
What is a strike?
A piece of old cloth or woven fabric
A business
A refusal to work until a group’s demands are fulfilled
3. A refusal to work until a group’s demands are fulfilled
A company that has control of a whole industry is called what?
A. Free Enterprise
B. Business
C. Monopoly
C. Monopoly
what is Capital resources
None man-made assets that are used to produce goods and services
This is not a thing
A factory with very good conditions and low pay
Man-made assets that are used to produce goods and services
4.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was…
A 19th century American who earned a fortune in the shipping and railroad industries.
Frank Sprague made the electric traction and what?
A. nothing else just that
B. The Elevator
C. the first gasoline automobile
D. The light bulb
B.
An entrepreneur is
A. a person who starts a business
B. I don't know
C. a piece of fabric
A. a person who starts a business
What is a financial share of ownership in a company?
Stock
Is A sweat shop a factory with amazing conditions and low pay
no it is bad conditions with low pay
Who is a Scottish-born scientist and inventor, known for inventing the first telephone in 1876?
Alexander Graham Bell
What did Orville and Wilbur Wright invent?
The airplane
The Industrial Revolution was…
A time period of major industrialization and advancing technology that began in the late 18th century
A time period of major industrialization and advancing technology that began in the late 18th century
What is a Free Enterprise?
An economic system where people can start their own business or do whatever work they choose
A group of workers who unite to demand better working conditions and higher pay (answer this like a real jeopardy question or you will get it wrong, Ex. The third planet from the sun;The third planet from the sun)
What is Labor union?
Andrew Carnegie was...
A Scottish-born American industrialist who led the expansion of the U.S. steel industry in the late 1800's
A powerful financier and industrial consolidator during the Industrial Revolution.(answer this like a real jeopardy question or you will get it wrong, Ex. The third planet from the sun;The third planet from the sun)
Who is J.P Morgan?
A period of U.S. history, when the U.S. experienced rapid growth in economics and industrialization, roughly from the 1870's to the 1890's is...
The Gilded Age