Chapter 14

Question 1

What did laissez-faire supporters believe about the government

Answer 1

That government should not interfere in the economy other than protecting private property rights and maintaining peace

Question 2

Who was attracted by the profit motive

Answer 2

People of high ability and ambition into business / entrepreneurs

Question 3

What did Thomas Edison’s laboratory produce?

Answer 3

Phonograph, light bulb, electric generator, battery, dictaphone, and motion picture

Question 4

From where did standard sizes in clothing develop?

Answer 4

Measurements taken of Union soldiers during the civil we

Question 5

The railroad boom began in 1862 when Lincoln signed the…

It also gave permission to build the transcontinental railroad

Answer 5

Pacific railway act

Question 6

The central and Union Pacific joined at _____ point in _____ to make the transcontinental railroad

Answer 6

Promontory in Utah

Question 7

Greenville dodge

Answer 7

In charge of building the railroad from Omaha, Nebraska, westward

Question 8

Leeland Stanford

Answer 8

Part of the big four, became of governor of CA, served as a U.S. Senator, founded standford university in 1885

Question 9

Ted Judah

Answer 9

His idea was to build the transcontinental railroad and he got it started but died before it ended

Question 10

Operating without government subsides or land grants, the Great northern became…

Answer 10

The most successful transcontinental railroad

Question 11

The Great Northern was built by and did not go

Answer 11

James Jay Hill

Bankrupt

Question 12

Where did the central pacific railroad start

Answer 12

San Francisco

Question 13

Where did the Union Pacific railroad start

Answer 13

Omaha, Nebraska

Question 14

Most successful railroad consolidator was

Answer 14

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 15

In the ___, the Union Pacific railroad became almost bankrupt

Answer 15

Credit mobilier scandal

Question 16

To make rail service safer and more reliable, in 1833 the ____ divided the country into____.

Answer 16

American railway association

4 time zones.

Question 17

Injunction

Answer 17

Order not to act

Question 18

Glass ceiling

Answer 18

Level in corporate company never climbed.

Question 19

Industrial union

Answer 19

Common workers

Question 20

Craft union

Answer 20

Skilled workers

Question 21

Trade union

Answer 21

Combination of industrial and craft workers

Question 22

Industrial worker

Answer 22

Basic skills, when they went on strike, the were replaced

Question 23

Craft workers

Answer 23

Special skills, when they went on strike the company begged them to come back

Question 24

The Pullman strike ended when railroad managers arranged for ___ to be attached to the Pullman cars

Answer 24

US mail cars

Question 25

First nationwide industrial was the

Answer 25

Knights of Labor’s

Question 26

If workers formed a union, companies often used a ___ to break out

Answer 26

Lockout (a company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work)

Question 27

Owners of large corporations opposed____

Answer 27

Industrial- unions that United all craft workers and common laborers in a particular industry

Question 28

___ received higher wages and had more control over how they organized their time on the shop floor

Answer 28

Craft workers

Question 29

How did the railroads help the nation develop?

Answer 29

They brought settlers and miners to the west and carried the resources back to factories in the east