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Chapter 19- The Triumph of Free Enterprise Flashcards

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years for the Age of Industry

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1865-1900

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by 1900, the US became one of the

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leading nations in the world

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the invention that changed the shoe manufacturing during the Civil War

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McKay’s sole-sewing machine

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led to the manufacture of ready-made clothing

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cloth-cutting machine

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other invention introduced in the Age of Industry

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packaged cereals
commercially canned food

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patented the first telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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year Bell patented first telephone

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1876

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the first telephone company

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Bell Telephone Company

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year of the first telephone company

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1877

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the greatest inventor in history

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Thomas Edison

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established the first modern scientific laboratory

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Edison

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where was the first modern scientific laboratory

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Menlo Park, New Jersey

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Edison said genius is “…

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one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”

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Edison’s invention that had the most profound effect upon the 20th century

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incandescent electric light bulb

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companies that dominated in the manufacturing of light bulbs and other electrical equipment and in the distribution of electrical power

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General Electric
Westinghouse

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invented the chilled-iron plow in 1868

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Oliver

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enabled a farmer to ride his plow instead of walking behind it

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plow sulkyp

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planted seed in rows and covered it with a thin layer of soil

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grain drill

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other agricultural advancements

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gang plow
disc harrow
springtoothed harrow
planters
cultivators
hay mowers

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a major asset to wheat farmers which bound grain in bundles and deposited it in stacks

sold 15,000 the first year

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twine binder

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invention in which grain could be reaped and threshed in one continuous operation

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combine

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replaced horses and mules for pulling farm equipment

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steam tractors

later gasoline and diesel tractors

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the planting process in which a different crop was planted each year to avoid depleting the soil of needed minerals

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crop rotation

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helped eliminate soil erosion by putting furrows to curve a hill

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contour plowing

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invented thornless cactus and improved potato

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Burbank

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went to Russia to find a variety of wheat that could grow with little rainfall

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Carleton

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had a laboratory named “God’s Little Workshop”

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Carver

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found multiple uses for the peanut, soybean, and sweet potato

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Carver

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government department founded in 1862 with the purpose of aiding farmers

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Department of Agriculture

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Congress act that made available to states funds to establish agricultural experiment stations

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Hatch Act

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authorized the establishment of an Extension Service within the Department of Agriculture

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Smith-Lever Act

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provided federal funds to help high schools finance courses in agriculture, home econ, and other vocational subjects

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Smith-Hughes Act

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three organizations established to provide agriculture and leadership training for young people in rural areas

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4-H Clubs
FFA
FHA

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34
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Section 19.3- Great Age of Enterprise

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35
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an economic system in which individuals are free to follow their economic pursuits as they see fit

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capitalism (free enterprise)

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36
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total output of goods and services

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GNP

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37
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Factors that contributed America’s prosperity in late 19th century…

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  1. New invention and discoveries
  2. Abundant natural resources
  3. Large labor supply
  4. Surplus capital
  5. stimulant of the Civil War
  6. Cheap transportation
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the greatest factors in American’s rise to prosperity

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character of her people (Protestant work ethic)

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the second most important stimulant of American prosperity

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free enterprise or capitalism

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brought to America the greatest wealth and luxury for the greatest number that the world has ever known

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capitalism or free enterprise system

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part of country that became well known for its production of textiles, shoes, and paper

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New England

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Industrial development made a notable move westward particularly to the

43
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became known for the iron and steel center

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Pittsburgh

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became meatpacking centers

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Chicago
Kansas City

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known for their flour mills

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Minneapolis
St.Paul

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became centers of brewery industry

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Milwaukee
St. Louis

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because so many changes took place in the South after the Civil War, it is often referred to as

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by the turn of the 20th century, nearly _________ of the cotton goods manufactured in the country were produced in the South

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became the center of the southern iron and steel industry

known as the Pittsburgh of the South

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Birmingham

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two men that discovered a new method to produce steel

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Kelly
Bessemer

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the method produced by Kelly and Bessemer to produce steel

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blast furnace (Bessemer process)

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a slower but more precise technique of steel production

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open-hearth method

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a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking

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entrepreneur

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the leading producer of iron and steel in the United states

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Henry Frick

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organized Carnegie Steel and bought other business to create giant corporation called United States Steel Corporation

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J.P. Morgan

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best remembered for helping to finance the founding of public libraries across US and England

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drilled the first oil well in the country in Northwestern Pennsylvania

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Edwin Drake

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oil company organized by John D Rockefeller

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Standard Oil Company

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year in which Standard Oil Company controlled over 30% of the nation’s oil refining capacity

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America’s wealthiest financier of the 19th century

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J.P. Morgan

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the railroads paid Rockefeller __________ on part of the established freight charge for each barrel of oil shipped

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formed when a group of businessmen receive a charter of incorporation from a state government

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corporation

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money to be used to make more money

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certificates of ownership

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one who purchases the stock

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stockholder

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what a stockholder earns on each of his shares

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between stockholders meetings, the corporation is managed by a

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board of directors

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a business owned by one individual

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proprietorship

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a business owned by two or more partners

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partnership

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a corporation has several advantages over a proprietorship…

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  1. a corporation can generate large amounts of capital
  2. a stockholder risks only the amount of money he invests in a corporation; a proprietor or partner is held personally responsible for debts of business
  3. the stock of corporation can easily change hands
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by the end of the 19th century, corporations produced nearly _______ of the total value of manufactured goods in the country

72
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arrangement which was an informal agreement among competing businesses to fix prices, share profits, or divide country

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entitles stockholders to share proportionately in the profits of a trust

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trust certificates

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organized the first trust in 1882

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Standard Oil Company

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dozens of companies under Rockefeller turned their stock over to which trust

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Standard Oil Trust

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one of the key advantages of the free market system

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competition

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businesses which have virtually no competition and put the consumer at the mercy of the big businesses

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monopolies

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farmer’s organizations that appealed to their state legislatures to adopt laws regulating the railroads

attempted to force railroads to charge equal freight rates to all shippers

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Granger laws

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forbade railroads to grant rebates, charge more for short hauls than long hauls, or to engage in certain other competitive practices

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Interstate Commerce Act

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board appointed to supervise the activities of railroads and enforce the provision of the law

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Interstate Commerce Act (ICC)

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act passed in 1890 declared trusts illegal

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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a captain of industry that tried to conduct his financial affairs as a steward of “God’s Gold”

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Rockefeller

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philanthropist that created a fund to promote education in the South

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other philanthropists

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  1. Cyrus McCormick
  2. Swifts
  3. Armour
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two philanthropists that contributed to church educational industries

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Hill
Vanderbilts

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only economic system capable of providing the greatest material benefits for the greatest number of people

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free enterprise or capitalism

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is the tight government control of trade

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mercantilism

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trade without government regulations or tariffs

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free trade

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man largely responsible for the laissez faire policy

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Adam Smith

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Adam Smith’s book

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Wealth of Nations

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had a philosophy that individual freedom in economics leads to the greatest good not only for the individual but for society as a whole

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Adam Smith was one of the earliest advocates of

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capitalism or free market

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largely responsible for the rise and triumph of capitalism

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