6.1 Industrialization

Question 1

What was one shortcoming of laissez-faire government?

Answer 1

Failed to protect workers and consumers

Question 2

Stalwarts

Answer 2

Traditional members of the Republican Party that favored patronage (spoils system)

Question 3

Half-Breeds

Answer 3

Moderate members of the Republican Party seeking civil service reform

Question 4

Mugwumps

Answer 4

Activist members of the Republican Party that left in protest to corruption

Question 5

Who invented the telephone?

Answer 5

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 6

Who invented the sewing machine?

Answer 6

Isaac Singer

Question 7

Who revolutionized steel production?

Answer 7

Henry Bessemer

Question 8

Horizontal integration

Answer 8

Elimination of competitors

Question 9

Vertical integration

Answer 9

Gaining control of production and distribution process

Question 10

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 10

Dominated oil industry

Question 11

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 11

Dominated steel industry

Question 12

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 12

Railroad tycoon

Question 13

J.P. Morgan

Answer 13

Leader in banking and finance

Question 14

Taylorism

Answer 14

System of scientific management developed by Frederick W. Taylor that was used to increase factory production and lower labor cost

Question 15

Tycoons

Answer 15

Criticized as “robber barons”, used Social Darwinism to justify wealth, believed in the “Gospel of Wealth”

Question 16

Name one “forgettable” President

Answer 16

Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison