Industrialization

Question 1

Who invented the air brake?

Answer 1

George Westinghouse

Question 2

When a company or trust has complete control over the industry it is called a what?

Answer 2

Monopoly

Question 3

What is it called when the government takes your land for the needs of the community?

Answer 3

Eminent Domain

Question 4

How many miles of track did the Union Pacific Railroad workers lay?

Answer 4

1,086 miles

Question 5

Who owned the Great Northern Railroad?

Answer 5

James J Hill

Question 6

A guarantee to protect an inventors rights to make, use, or sell the invention is what?

Answer 6

Patent

Question 7

Ownership of business involved in each step of a manufacturing process is called what?

Answer 7

Vertical Integration

Question 8

Who was the owner of US Steel?

Answer 8

J.P. Morgan

Question 9

Who took over the shipping industry? Nicknamed “the captain”

Answer 9

Vanderbilt

Question 10

What two men missed the last spike that joined the central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad?

Answer 10

Stanford and Durant

Question 11

Ownership of several companies making the same product is called what?

Answer 11

Horizontal Integration

Question 12

What did congress pass in 1862 that states a railway must be made to the Pacific coast?

Answer 12

Pacific Railway Act

Question 13

Who was the founder of Standard Oil?

Answer 13

J.D. Rockefeller

Question 14

Who invented the sleeping car, dining car, and the parlor car?

Answer 14

George Pullman

Question 15

What man wanted to build a bridge across the Mississippi River?

Answer 15

Andrew Carnegie

Question 16

Grants of money from the government to private companies

Answer 16

Subsidies

Question 17

Major railroad lines

Answer 17

Trunk lines

Question 18

Railroad lines connecting small towns to trunk lines

Answer 18

Feeder lines

Question 19

Cattle trail from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas

Answer 19

Chisholm Trail

Question 20

Worker who drive cattle to the railroad towns

Answer 20

Cowboys

Question 21

Fierce competition by railroad companies to get business by lowering prices and undercutting their competitor’s prices

Answer 21

Rate Wars

Question 22

Inventor of the telegraph

Answer 22

Samuel F. B. Morse

Question 23

Person who laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866

Answer 23

Cyrus Field

Question 24

Inventor of the telephone in 1876

Answer 24

Alexander Bell

Question 25

Device used in steel production; it shot a stream of hot air into molten iron to burn off impurities

Answer 25

Besserman Converter

Question 26

Lands under jurisdiction of the US government and reserved for Indians. The goal of establishing reservations was to insure peace between Indians and settlers

Answer 26

Reservations

Question 27

Sioux chief who actually took part in the battle of Little Bighorn. On that day, he was reported to say, "today is a good day to fight, today is a good day to die." Eventually he will be captured and will be shot while being held prisoner. The guards that shot him while he was "attempting to escape" were members of the 7th Cavalry.

Answer 27

Crazy Horse

Question 28

This battle occurred in 1876 when approximately 2,500 Cheyenne and Sioux warriors annihilated alt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his 264 men

Answer 28

Little Big Horn

Question 29

Next Perce chief ho tried to lead his tribe to Canada when the government broke the treaty regarding land in the Wallowa Valley

Answer 29

Chief Joseph

Question 30

Apache chief who for 10 years led his tribe against the US

Answer 30

Geronimo

Question 31

Law created to end the the tribal way of life for Indians and convert them to the white lifestyle. It allotted 160 acres of land for single male Indians and 240 acres of land for married Indians

Answer 31

Dawes Act

Question 32

Battle in 1890 that occurred when soldiers attempted to disarm Indians, arrest Sitting Bull and end "Ghost Dance" activity

Answer 32

Wounded Knee

Question 33

Three or more people charted by a state and permitted to sell stock in order to raise money

Answer 33

Corporation

Question 34

Certificate of partial ownership of a corporation

Answer 34

Stock

Question 35

Form of business consolidation wherein companies turn over control to trustees and several companies are run as one

Answer 35

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 36

A business consolidation method wherein a new company is charted, sell stocks, and then buys a controlling portion of a production company

Answer 36

Holding Company

Question 37

The division of overall production into a number of stages or smaller task

Answer 37

Division of Labor

Question 38

The standardization of the production process and the interchangeability of parts in order to produce many identical items

Answer 38

Mass Production

Question 39

Immigrants from northern and Western Europe

Answer 39

Old immigrants

Question 40

Immigrants from eastern and Southern Europe and Asia who first began to arrive in large numbers after the civil war

Answer 40

New immigrants

Question 41

A feeling of suspicion toward anything new or foreign

Answer 41

Nativism

Question 42

An arrangement whereby immigration was paid for by a company in exchange for labor

Answer 42

Contract Labor

Question 43

Act passed in 1882, this law banned the immigration of Chinese workers to the United States

Answer 43

Chinese Exclusion Act