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1
The telephone is the most well-known of his inventions.
Thomas Edison
Alexander G. Bell
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
2
What age did children have to be to work in sweatshops?
12
16
10
14
3
Legal arrangement grouping together a number of companies under a single board of directors
Bind
Monopoly
Trust
Faculty
4
Wilbur and Orville Wright built a lightweight airplane that was powered by what kind of engine?
Gas
Steam
Solar-powered
Coal-burning
5
This inventor was famous for having over 1,000 inventions patented.
Thomas Edison
Henry Bessemer
Alexander G. Bell
Henry Ford
6
The invention of the airplane led to increased demand for ......
Coal
Oil
Aluminum
Lumber
7
Workers would go on "Strike" for all but which one of these reasons?
Higher Pay
Lower Pay
Shorter Workday
Better safety equipment
8
Which of the following was an effect of the expansion of railroads in the U.S.?
Shortages in lumber industry
increase in deaths of immigrant laborers
increase in steel prices
rapid growth of cities
9
What do you call someone who is willing to replace striking workers for less money?
strikebreaker
scab
defector
asset
10
The concept that laborers acting together have greater success in negotiating with management.
Collective Bargaining
Vertical Integration
Social Darwinism
Bessemer Process
11
The idea that those who were "fittest" would be the most successful in life.
Social Darwinism
Barbarianism
Monopolizing
Labor Intensive
12
Who was the Irish immigrant that worked for better conditions for miners?
Mary Harris Jones
Paddy Mulligan
Ronald O'Shea
Frederick W. Taylor
13
How did "specialization" affect factories in the late 1800s?
Factories down-sized and some closed
It required having more managers in the factory
Workers repeated a single step again and again
Workers were given numerous tasks to perform
14
If you own a corporation but do not make its day-to-day business decisions, what are you called
Gambler
Stockholder
CFO
CEO
15
The exclusive right to make or sell and invention or product is called?
Corporation
Patent
Vertical Integration
Trust
16
John D. Rockefeller made a fortune in this industry?
Oil
Coal
Railroad
Textiles
17
Who led the American Federation of Labor?
John D. Rockefeller
Upton Sinclair
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Samuel Gompers
18
Who was the leader of the Knights of Labor?
Terence V. Powderly
Samuel Adams
Andrew Carnegie
Amos Lee
19
How did the telegraph differ from the telephone?
telegraphs were much more expensive
telegraph could carry only written messages
telegraph could only work in big cities
telegraph couldn't send messages over a long distance
20
What was the first national labor union called?
Knights of Labor
Knights of America
AFL
Bessemer Labor
21
At this protest in Chicago, a bomb killed eight police officers an injured many others.
Roosevelt Avenue
Haymarket Square
Lincoln Square
Times Square
22
In what country did the 1st Industrial Revolution take place?
Spain
Russia
England
Denmark
23
Which tycoon founded Stanford University?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
Leland Stanford
Henry Ford
24
The Homestead Strike was a protest
against the Pullman Palace Car Company
in Colorado demanding safer working conditions
Against the Carnegie Steel Company's plan to cut jobs
In Chicago demanding an eight hour workday
25
What is it called if you own all the businesses in a certain field?
Horizontal integration
Being smarter than your competition
Bessemer Process
Social Darwinism
26
How did the labor force change during the Second Industrial Revolution?
Experienced workers replaced children working in mills
Machines eliminated the jobs of many skilled craftspeople
Industries hired only highly skilled workers
Bosses started to lock the doors of the factories
