Vocab
Enabled Workers to produce more goods per day at a lower cost.
Mass Production
This person brough electricity to homes, stores and factories; he called it the electrical power station. Who is he?
Thomas Edison
How were farms affected by the growth of big business?
New machinery provided farms a greater crop yield.
What was an effect of the high tariffs that Congress placed on imported goods after the Civil War?
Foreign competition decreased
Which activist co-founded and presided over the National Woman Suffrage Association?
Susan B. Anthony
What is Urbanization?
The growth of cities
Andrew Carnegie was responsible for developing what industry?
Developed the U.S. Steel Industry
What tactics did labor unions employ to improve working conditions?
Labor unions organized workers to fight for better wages and working conditions.
Describe the economic policy known as laissez-faire
government non-interference with business
What is at the end of the rainbow?
W...
This is a business that is owned by many investors?
How did John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie increase the size of their businesses?
Rockefeller and Carnegie grew their businesses by setting up corporations and trusts.
What was an effect of the rapid growth of ci*es due to industrialization?
crowded tenement housing
How did monopolies threaten the free-enterprise system?
by eliminating competition
Beyonce is #1 in the world for women with the most Grammy awards. How many does she have?
25
32
40
35
35
A company that controls all production and sales of particular product or service is called what?
Monopoly
1. Death of Children
2. Dangerous working conditions/ diseases
3. Construction of tenants
Name two of the benefits of industrialization:
Cities
Entrepreneurs amassed enormous wealth. Technological inventions improved life.
Business boomed.
A wide range of affordable consumer goods were produced.
Samuel Gompers
He led the labor group called the American Federalization of Labor
Where does TODAY come before YESTERDAY?
In the dictionary...
What is the Labor Union?
An organization that brings workers together in the same trade or job to fight for better wages and working conditions
Orville and Wilbur Wright were inventors of...?
The Airplane
How did federal, state, and local governments encourage business expansion?
Federal, state, and local governments helped business through favorable laws and subsidies and by passing higher tariffs.
What effect did trusts have on the political process?
They used their wealth to influence election results.
This woman is ranked the top woman artist of the 21st Century. Who is...
Taylor Swift