Ch 6

Question 1

Gasoline

Answer 1

Byproduct of refining oil into kerosene

Question 2

Steel

Answer 2

Made by the Bessemer process

Question 3

George Pullman

Answer 3

Built sleeper cars for trains, built a small town for his employees to live in

Question 4

Bessemer process

Answer 4

Injecting air into molten iron to rid it of carbon and other impurities

Question 5

Alva Edison

Answer 5

Made lightbulb and first laboratory

Question 6

Inventions for progress

Answer 6

Christopher sholes- typewriter

Alexander graham bell- telephone

Question 7

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 7

Invested and became rich, became a HUGE producer of steel

Question 8

Horizontal integration

Answer 8

Companies with similar products merge

Question 9

Vertical integration

Answer 9

Companies with different products merge

Question 10

Cities because of railroads

Answer 10

Abilene, Kansas; Flagstaff, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; and Seattle, Washington,

Question 11

4time zones

Answer 11

Eastern, central, mountain, pacific

Question 12

Cf dowd

Answer 12

Proposed that the world be split into 24 different time zones

Question 13

Rockefeller

Answer 13

Owned standard oil company, made huge profits by paying employees little

Question 14

Credit mobilizer scandal

Answer 14

Made railroad track for about 2-3 times the actual cost and payed off congressmen not to say anything

Question 15

Robber barons

Answer 15

Industrialists who used unfair tactics to make a lot of money

Question 16

Herbert Spencer

Answer 16

Used Darwin’s biological theories to explain evolution of humans

Question 17

Philanthropy

Answer 17

Wanting well being of others especially by donations of money

Question 18

Monopoly

Answer 18

Buying out all of an industry to gain complete control over it

Question 19

Vanderbilt

Answer 19

Cornelius Vanderbilt donated 1 mil to establish the university

Question 20

Samuel Gompers

Answer 20

Led the cigar makers international union to join other craft unions, president of American federation of labor

Question 21

American federation of labor

Answer 21

Negotiated with other businesses to get fair treatment in work

Question 22

Sherman anti trust act

Answer 22

Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries

Question 23

National labor union

Answer 23

Persuaded Congress to legalize 8 hr work days for gov employees

Question 24

Mother jones

Answer 24

Prominent organizer in womens labor unions

Question 25

Edwin drake

Answer 25

Successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil

Question 26

George Westinghouse

Answer 26

Helped make harnessing electricity safer and less expensive

Question 27

Grangers

Answer 27

Wanted gov to take control over corrupt railroads

Question 28

J.P. Morgan

Answer 28

Headed United States steel and bought out Carnegie steel making it the largest business in the world

Question 29

Eugene v debs

Answer 29

Wanted to form a union of skilled and unskilled workers - American railway union