Chapter 4: Triumph of Industry

Patented an improved method for producing the carbon filaments used in the electric light bulb.

What would be a comparison of the 1st and 2nd industrial revolution?

What were some of the natural resources the USA had?

American industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 1800's

Who invented the telephone?

Which of the following DOES describe the Second Industrial Revolution?

What is vertical integration ?

a company acquires competitors in the same industry for the creation of a monopoly.

the founder of the Standard Oil Company

Built railroads that connected Jacksonville to Miami.

Which statement describes both the First and Second Industrial Revolutions?

A person who runs a business , taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

Is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company

Which African American is credited with a patent on a lubricating system for steam engines?

Which of the following best explains the original intent of why the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed?

American entrepreneur who developed hair products especially for black women

Decisions regarding investment, production, and distribution are based on supply and demand

Which argument supports the perception of big business leaders as “Captains of Industry”?

A steel-making process, impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation .

Engineer that designed and manufactured the sleeping car and founded a company town,

Is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications.

How were Americans influenced by the growth of Railroads during the 2nd industrial revolution?

system in which a country's business are controlled by private owners for profit.

First federal action against monopolies, it was extensively used for trust busting.

developed devices that influenced life , including the phonograph, the motion picture camera

Which statement about U.S. economic growth is true?

How did the patent system encourage inventiveness?

During the Industrial Revolution, Elijah McCoy and Granville T. Woods had a huge impact on which of the following?

Business leaders looked to establish monopolies in their industries was for which of the following reasons?

What was the significance of the Sherman Anti-trust Act?

Which best describes the establishment and growth of manufacturing and mechanical production in a country?

company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law.

Who was J.P. Morgan?

the trade mark of aboard game where the aim is to buy properties on the board and build hotels.

Railroad tycoon who brought tourists to West Florida

Who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry?

Which entrepreneur is not correctly paired with his field?

two American brothers, who are credited with inventing the world's first successful airplane

First African American to receive a patent, designed furniture a bed that tucked into a desk

Is a new idea, more effective device or process

Which identifies an accomplishment of Edison and his team at Menlo Park, NJ?

During 1800s, the dramatic industrial growth of the United States was caused by all of the following. except?

Which of these was a major difference between the First and the Second Industrial Revolutions in the United States?

what statement is the above cartoon making?

A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire.