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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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