Industrialization Test Review 2024

Membership in unions decreased as a result of the Haymarket Riot.

Specialization led to worker boredom and injuries.

A legal arrangement grouping together a number of companies under a single board of directors.

Which of the following men got wealthy from the steel industry?

Which of the following best describes strikes of the late 19th century?

Ownership of businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process.

When a corporation grows by acquiring businesses that are similar, this is called...

'Robber Baron' was a term used to describe some owners of big businesses because they used deceptive methods to get $$

A way of making steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron.

Which of the following was a social issue during the Second Industrial Revolution?

Businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares.

Passed by Congress in 1890, this act made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade.

The idea of giving generous amounts of money to charities

Which Inventor who patented the telephone in 1876?

Who became successful through combining, or consolidating, companies in the oil industry

Union leaders encouraged all employees to use this to work together to negotiate with management

Name the period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing at the end of the 1800s.

During the WHAT, workers refused to work on trains carrying Pullman cars, stopping traffic on many railroad lines.

Who used the assembly line to build cars?

The term 'Gilded Age' is used to describe the late 1800's in the United States and refers to the