A New Industrial Age - Chapter 14

Question 1

First person to use steam engine to drill for oil

Answer 1

Edwin L. Drake

Question 2

Technique used to make steel from iron

Answer 2

Bessemer process

Question 3

Inventor of the light bulb

Answer 3

Thomas Alva Edison

Question 4

Inventor of the typewriter

Answer 4

Christopher Sholes

Question 5

Inventor of the telephone

Answer 5

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 6

A railroad that crosses the entire country

Answer 6

Transcontinental railroad

Question 7

Inventor of the sleeping car

Answer 7

George M. Pullman

Question 8

Name of company involved in stealing of railroad money

Answer 8

Crédit Mobilier

Question 9

Court case that gave government right to regulate private industry

Answer 9

Munn v. Illinois

Question 10

Law granting Congress authority to regulate railroad activities

Answer 10

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 11

Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry

Answer 11

Andrew Carnegie

Question 12

Process in which a company buys out its suppliers

Answer 12

Vertical integration

Question 13

Process in which companies producing similar products merge

Answer 13

Horizontal integration

Question 14

Theory that taught only the strong survived

Answer 14

Social Darwinism

Question 15

Head of the Standard Oil Company

Answer 15

John D. Rockefeller

Question 16

Law that outlawed trusts

Answer 16

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 17

Union leader

Answer 17

Samuel Gompers

Question 18

Name of union led by Gompers

Answer 18

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Question 19

Leader of the American Railway Union

Answer 19

Eugene V. Debs

Question 20

Union of radicals and socialists nicknamed the Wobblies

Answer 20

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Question 21

Organizer for United Mine Workers

Answer 21

Mary Harris Jones