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Company Owners
The Money Debate
The American Economy
Inventors and Pioneers of Industry
Miscellaneous
100
Many of the successful companies of the time were this type of company where they hold many of the same legal rights as individuals.
What are corporations?
100
This term means that only gold can back currency.
What is the gold standard?
100
This term is used when business owners control each step in a manufacturing process.
What is vertical integration?
100
This Wizard of Menlo Park invented the light bulb and held over 1,000 patents at his death.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
This group was a social and educational organization that wanted to help make farmers' lives better.
What is the National Grange?
200
Some company owners viewed unions as this term that means people who oppose all forms of government.
What are anarchists?
200
This term means that both gold and silver are coined.
What is free coinage?
200
People who start their own businesses are called this.
What are entrepreneurs?
200
We made the first flight in an airplane with a gas-powered engine.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
200
This strike started in a Carnegie steel mill because workers did not want new machines brought into the plant.
What is the Homestead Strike?
300
Many company owners became rich during this period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing in the late 1800s.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
300
This act was passed by Congress to increase the amount of silver purchased for coining in the United States.
What is the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?
300
This term is used when owners control all the businesses in a certain field.
What is horizontal integration?
300
This man patented the telephone, and later saw his company grow into today's AT&T.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
He pumped the first oil out of America in the state of Pennsylvania.
Who is Edwin Drake?
400
He made his fortune turning Standard Oil into a near-monopoly.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
This political party favored inflating the money supply with paper money not backed by gold or silver.
What is the Greenback Party?
400
In America, we have a system where private businesses own and operate most of our industries, which is called this.
What is capitalism?
400
This man designed improved air brakes for trains, which made travel safer for people.
Who is George Westinghouse?
400
This man designed elegant passenger and sleeping cars for trains to make travel more comfortable.
Who is George Pullman?
500
This Scottish-born immigrant made his fortune in the steel industry; he later donated most of it back for the good of the people.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
This man was the first major party candidate (Democrat or Republican) to address the money issue. As a result, two different parties nominated him for president. He eventually lost, signaling the beginning of a very unsuccessful attempt to become president.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
This term occurs when businesses are free from government involvement.
What is free enterprise?
500
This man developed a new way to make steel cheaper and quicker, which lowered the price of steel around the world.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
500
This man toured the south for the Department of Agriculture and later started the National Grange.
Who is Oliver Hudson Kelley?