Industrialization quiz - 10/3

Question 1

Patent

Answer 1

Grants inventors rights & prevents others from copying. Lasts 20-30 years

Question 2

Piece work

Answer 2

Workers paid based off of number of items they produce

Question 3

Sweatshops

Answer 3

Where workers face poor working conditions

Question 4

Monopoly

Answer 4

A company having control over a particular product/service, limiting competition

Question 5

Union

Answer 5

Organization where workers collectively represent their interests & negotiate with employers

Question 6

Strike

Answer 6

Workers protest to having better working conditions (they refuse to have bad ones)

Question 7

Robber Baron:

Answer 7

Wealthy business leader that treated worker poorly & “manipulates” industry in a negative

Question 8

Captain of Industry:

Answer 8

Successful business leader who’s more positive & makes good tributes for people/economy

Question 9

Light bulb Benefits:

Answer 9

Revolutionized the way we light up surroundings & replace older lighting methods

Question 10

Telegraph Benefits:

Answer 10

Communications that’s fast & contact services. Ideas travel faster.

Question 11

Railroad Benefits:

Answer 11

transportation and connected east & west coast, boosting trade, economic growth

Question 12

George Pullman

Answer 12

• developed “Pullman sleeping car,” luxurious railway carriage
• long distance travel, railroads
• racist (Robber Baron)

Question 13

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 13

• founder of “Stander oil” company
• first billionaire, donate $ to educations
• University of Chicago (Cap. of Industry)

Question 14

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 14

• worked in Pittsburg cotton factory
• Steel corporations, irons
• donated lost of $
  Cap. of Industry (or both)

Question 15

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 15

• re-owened American business magnate
• developed railroad/shipping industries
• quit school at 11 to help father (Robber Baron)

Question 16

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 16

• 184711922, born in Scotland
• invented telegraph
• moved to Boston 1872, opened a school for teacher of the deaf

Question 17

Thomas A. Edison

Answer 17

• 1847-1931, born in Ohio & moved to Michigan
• used to work as a telegrapher
• carbonized cotton for light bulb

Question 18

J.P Morgan

Answer 18

• accountant, crucial role in financial system
• railroads, US steel, & General Electric (GE) (Cap. of Industry)

Question 19

William Randolph Hearst

Answer 19

• newspaper publisher &business tycoon
• yellow journalism (Robber Baron)

Question 20

Jay Gould

Answer 20

• 1886 - he acquired Manhattan Elevated railroad
• bought blocks of union & connected east/west coast of US (Robber Baron)

Question 21

Leland Stanford

Answer 21

• “Big Four” railroad tycoons
• Standofrd University, found in 1885 (Robber Baron)

Question 22

Lewis Hine

Answer 22

• photographer who used images to show working conditions of child labor
• helped advocating against child labor

Question 23

Haymarket Affair/Riot:

Answer 23

• police vs workers/activists
• protesting for 8 hour work day, set back in labor movement
• 8 men identified as anarchists (set to prison/death

Question 24

Homestead Strike:

Answer 24

• Carnegie Steel vs Steel workers
• Henry Clay Frick announced pay cuts, 12 men died/injured
• Ended unions of steel workers until WW1

Question 25

Great Railroad Strike:

Answer 25

• government vs railroad workers
• started in Martinsburg but spread
• government sided with business, making it difficult for protesters

Question 26

Great Coal Strike:

Answer 26

• coal miners vs owners
• 10% wages increased, 9 hour work shifts
• government & J.P Morgan helped

Question 27

Pullman Strike:

Answer 27

• trains & railroads stopped working
• workers protested wage cut
• 30 people died & many injured
• Labor Day created

Question 28

Newsboy Strike

Answer 28

• Summer 1899
• Children won strike & everyone agreed with then