Second Industrial Revolution

Question 1

Laissez-Faire capitalism believes government should have

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no intervention in the economy

Question 2

Who created the first working internal combustion engine-run airplane?

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Orville and Wilbur Wright

Question 3

A free market is based on

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competition

Question 4

Capitalism is an economic system based on

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private ownership of land

Question 5

A means of communication over wires using a series of dots and dashes by using electricity

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telegraph

Question 6

What labor union welcomed skilled and unskilled workers, women and African Americans?

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Knights of Labor

Question 7

A corporation that owns several businesses that produce the same product is using

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horizontal integration

Question 8

Henry Ford used this to make automobiles affordable to the common man

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assembly line

Question 9

The Bessemer Process is a method that made the production of what material faster and cheaper?

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Steel

Question 10

Labor union founded by Samuel Gompers, organized independent craft union of skilled workers

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American Federation of Labor

Question 11

Inventor of the "talking telegraph," a.k.a. the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

Question 12

Individual ownership of property is bad and means of production should be community held

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Communism

Question 13

1886, a year of intense strikes and violent labor confrontations, became known as

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Great Upheaval

Question 14

Who was the founder of Standard Oil Company?

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John D Rockefeller

Question 15

Social Darwinism is based on Charles Darwin's theory of

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natural selection and evolution

Question 16

Who invented the lightbulb by figuring out that a tungsten filament will burn slowly?

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Thomas Alva Edison

Question 17

Name of Chicago labor confrontation that began with an exploding bomb among police officers

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Haymarket Riot, 1886

Question 18

True or False. Exclusive economic control of an industry is called a monopoly.

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True

Question 19

After using a process to refine oil, this is made and used as a fuel and to burn in lamps.

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Kerosene

Question 20

People who oppose all forms of government are called

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Anarchists

Question 21

The idea that society progresses through natural competition and fit people rise

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Social Darwinism

Question 22

Which city became a major center for steel manufacturing in the late 1800's?

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Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, Ohio, Gary, Indiana

Question 23

A guarantee to protect an inventor's rights to make use or sell an invention is called a

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patent

Question 24

The idea that the economy will prosper if businesses operate in a free market system is called

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Free Enterprise

Question 25

A corporation that controls businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process is

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using vertical integration

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