American History Chapter 12 Industrialization -late 1800s

Question 1

A school in Nashville bears his name

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Vanderbilt

Question 2

During the early days of industrialization, many members of Congress believed tariffs were ...

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needed to protect American business from foreign competition

Question 3

How many time zones are there in the continental US?

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4

Question 4

The first billion dollar company in the US was..............

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US Steel

Question 5

A court order to do or not do something

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injuction

Question 6

Pools, trusts, and holding companies were ways to get around laws concerning..................

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Monopolies

Question 7

Issuing stock allows a corporation to raise $ while

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spreading out the financial risk

Question 8

Corporations bought new machines in order to achieve

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economies of scale

Question 9

What time zone is Minnesota in?

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Central

Question 10

Wrote the Communist Manifesto

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Karl Marx

Question 11

Being on this would keep you from working in a factory

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black list

Question 12

Montgomery Wards, and Sears and Roebuck were pioneers of

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Catalogue sales

Question 13

The transcontinental RR was built mostly by immigrants from

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China & Ireland

Question 14

Refrigerated rail cars was his idea

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Gustavus Swift

Question 15

In the late 1800s, workers buying power generally increased because

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prices fell faster than wages

Question 16

Which factor that lead to industrialization was not influenced by government policy?

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abundant natural resources

Question 17

Laissez-faire relies on ___________ to regulate prices and wages.

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a free market

Question 18

Agreements among companies to keep prices at a certain level were known as

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pools

Question 19

Invented the ice machine

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Lowe

Question 20

Founder of the Knights of Labor

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Powderly

Question 21

Petroleum, before the invention of the automobile, was refined into

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Kerosene

Question 22

The 1894 Pullman strike was halted by ______

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a court order

Question 23

Air brakes for trains

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Westinghouse

Question 24

How did the federal gov. help finance the railroad?

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it provided land grants to RR companies

Question 25

Employers generally viewed unions as

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bad

Question 26

A company that owns the coal mines, iron mines, railroads and mills would be an example of

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verticle integration

Question 27

He was the Wizard of Menlo Park who "turned the lights on"

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T. A. Edison

Question 28

Controlling an entire market

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monopoly

Question 29

Department stores changed the idea of shopping by

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having a huge array of different products

Question 30

Pinkerton guards were hired to protect replacement works at which strike?

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Homestead

Question 31

Nickname Given to the International Workers of the World

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Wobblies

Question 32

Developed the oil well (derrick)

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Edwin Drake

Question 33

Due to him you can TEXT-OMG LOL

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Bell

Question 34

The Credit Mobilier was a scandal concerning......

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building a railroad

Question 35

People who start their own business are called

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entrepreneurs

Question 36

A cobbler makes and repairs

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shoes

Question 37

Economies of scale resulted in

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lower costs and increased production

Question 38

Measurements taken of soldiers during the Civil War led to the development of....

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ready made clothes

Question 39

Laid the Trans Atlantic telegraph cable

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Cyrus Field

Question 40

A third party tries to reconcile differences between management and workers

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arbitration

Question 41

The price of each additional unit produced becomes less expensive

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economies of scale

Question 42

Blast furnace creator

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Bessemer

Question 43

The total value of all goods and service produced by a country

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Gross national product

Question 44

Founder of The Great Northern Railroasd & Empire Builder

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James J Hill

Question 45

Billboard creator

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N.W. Ayer

Question 46

The two railroads that built the transcontinental RR were the Union Pacific &.....

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Central Pacific

Question 47

Robber Baron-cheater who manipulated the stock market

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Jay Gould

Question 48

"laissez faire" economics allows how much government involvement

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very little control

Question 49

Steel Giant?

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Carnegie

Question 50

Who owns a corporation?

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Stockholders

Question 51

After the Haymarket riot which union suffered membership decline?

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Knights of Labor

American History Chapter 12 Industrialization -late 1800s

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American History Chapter 12 Industrialization -late 1800s

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