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Final Question

Describe the first flight and the reaction to it.

A 100

Was largely ignored by the press and the publicLasted for 12 seconds and flew 120 feet

A 100

Why was the invention of the light bulb significant?

A 200

it allowed people to work at night increasing factory productivity

Created demand for electricity and the growth of the power plant industry

A 200

Which 2 inventions had the greatest impact on women?

A 300

Typewriter

Telephone

A 300

Describe Henry Bessemer’s contribution to the 2nd Industrial Revolution

A 400

Creates the Bessemer process which greatly reduces the price of steel

A 400

This man made the invention of cheap steel available in the US

A 500

Andrew Carnegie

A 500

This business model involves owning the companies that provide the materials and services upon which your

enterprise depends to increase profit.

B 100

-Vertical Integration

B 100

This business model involves owning several companies

that make the same product to increase profit.

B 200

-Horizontal Integration

B 200

This business model involves buying supplies in bulk and producing goods in massive quantities to increase profit.

B 300

Economies of Scale

B 300

Define Trust, why do they form

B 400

B 400

Is created when multiple companies combine under one board of trustees

To control price and prodcution

Define Corporation

B 500

Company that sells shares of ownership, called stock, to investors in order to raise money.

B 500

Define Labor Union

C 100

Organized associations of workers, formed to protect and further the rights and interests of

the workers

C 100

Describe 3 goals of unions

C 200

•8 hour workday•Reserve western land for settlers•Raise the wage to a livable standard•Abolish child labor•Graduated Income Tax•Government ownership of telephone, telegraph, and railroads•Better working conditions•Stop immigration•Overthrow wage system•Tariffs on imported goods

C 200

Describe 3 tactics of unions in this time period

C 300

•Collective bargaining•Strike•Boycott•Pressuring Government to pass laws•Violence and Vandalism

C 300

What are the 3 philosophies behind labor unions?

C 400

•Power in numbers•American Revolution Ideals: Believes in social equality, celebrates honest labor, and relies on an independent, virtuous citizenship•Karl Marx and communism

C 400

Describe the events surrounding the Triangle

Shirtwaist Factory Fire. How did this event effect the labor

movement?

C 500

With the main stairway on fire and the other doors locked, the trapped workers had no escape routes. They burned to death on the factory floor, stampeded toward the elevator shaft or jumped to their deaths from the windows. Firemen, whose ladders were too short to reach the ninth floor,

watched helplessly with thousands of onlookers as the workers died.

Public opinion supports unionsGovernment reforms workplace safety laws

C 500

Describe the Homestead Act of 1862:

D 100

Opened land to the average personRequired a person to apply, live on land for 5 years and improve it, and then to file for the

deed

D 100

Manifest Destiny

D 200

Is the idea that that the expansion of the US throughout the American continent was both justified and inevitable.

D 200

A Monopoly

D 300

Is created when one business removes all of their competition and controls the market

Was one of the reasons the US saw such amazing growth in manufacturing during the late 1800s

Uses vertical and horizontal integrationHas been accused of corrupting government and

taking advantage of workers and the public

D 300

A small business

D 400

Is a business that is privately owned and operated, with a small number of employees

and relatively low volume of sales.

D 400

Stockholders

D 500

D 500

Buy ownership of a business and receive a percent of the companies profits in return

Social Darwinism:

E 100

Believes that the ‘fittest’ members of society will rise to wealth and power, the ‘unfit’ will

fail.

E 100

Laissez Faire

E 200

That the government should not interfere in the economy.

E 200

Communism

E 300

Believes that the capitalist system allows the wealthy to take advantage of the workers and

will result in revolution, therefore there should be no private ownership and the

community should provide all needs for the people equally

E 300

Collective bargaining

E 400

negotiations between the union and the employer

involving wages, hours, and working conditions

E 400

Boycott

E 500

A decision by consumers to stop buying a particular

product, in order to achieve a political or economical goal.

E 500

Bicameral Legislature:

F 100

A legislative body with two partsWas created by the Constitution

F 100

Elects the President

F 200

Electoral College

F 200

What were three specific benefits that resulted from

building the railroad?

F 300

Various

F 300

How did construction of the railroad affect the lives of Native Americans on the

plains in 3 ways.

F 400

Various

F 400

Describe the events surrounding the Homestead Strike. How did this event effect the labor movement

F 500

Economy downturn for steel –carnegie and frick want to lower wages and break union – union agrees to wage but

not break – frick builds wall hires pinkertons – battle between strikers and pinkertons – men die – scabs- union

breaks

Public opinion doesn’t know who to support, the steel union is broken and owners institution lower wages

F 500

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