Module 3

Question 1

1859 successfully used steam engine to drill for oil which started an oil boom

Answer 1

Edwin L. Drake

Question 2

1876 unveiled the telephone which opened up communication worldwide

Answer 2

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 3

This man built the world’s first research laboratory and invented the incandescent light bulb

Answer 3

Thomas Alva Edison

Question 4

The Bessemer Process was made famous because it produced what metal stronger and efficient

Answer 4

Steel

Question 5

This man invented the typewriter changing the office workforce forever

Answer 5

Christopher Sholes

Question 6

The growth of what industry helped fuel development of the railroads, skyscrapers, and farming equipment

Answer 6

Steel

Question 7

All of the following are examples of how mechanical farming equipment reshaped rural areas except

a. farming becoming more efficient
b.fewer laborers needed so people left rural areas for cities
c.price of crops began to rise because of efficiency
d.larger areas could be farmed, less individual farmers needed

Answer 7

c.price of crops began to rise because of efficiency

Question 8

As the workforce changed due to new inventions woman began taking jobs as

Answer 8

typist and telephone operators

Question 9

Designed a sleeping car for trains and built his employees a town

Answer 9

George M. Pullman

Question 10

Joining of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads.

Answer 10

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 11

Railroad Tycoon- expanded railroads west and one of the wealthiest men in America

Answer 11

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 12

Construction company credited by railroad to inflate contracts to build track.

Answer 12

Credit Mobilier

Question 13

Supreme Court Decision Munn v. Illinois?

Answer 13

Establishes government right to regulate private industry.

Question 14

Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 14

Federal government would supervise railroad activities through a group

Question 15

Wabash V. Illinois?

Answer 15

States could not regulate interstate commerce.

Question 16

The principles of supply and demand effected business in all of the following ways accept?

Answer 16

Supply output decreased as settlers moved away from big cities for farms

Question 17

Why did farmers demand regulation of the railroads

Answer 17

Railroads controlled transportation and were often corrupt.

Question 18

Scottish born entrepreneur who owned majority of the steel industry

Answer 18

Andrew Carnegie

Question 19

This man made Cleveland famous with his Standard Oil Company which controlled 90% of the market

Answer 19

John D. Rockefeller

Question 20

Allows companies to conduct business without intervention by the government.

Answer 20

Laissez-Faire

Question 21

Biological theory to explain the evolution of human society and applied to business practices

Answer 21

Social Darwinism

Question 22

Made his fortune taking over and merging other people’s business

Answer 22

J.P. Morgan

Question 23

joining together companies producing similar products

Answer 23

Horizontal Integration

Question 24

The purchasing of companies to control the factors of production from the mine to the consumer.

Answer 24

Vertical Integration

Question 25

Competing companies put control of their businesses under a single group of trustees.

Answer 25

Trust

Question 26

Complete control over industry’s production, wages, and prices.

Answer 26

Monopoly

Question 27

Prohibited monopolies from hindering competition

Answer 27

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 28

Why were business leaders such as John d. Rockefeller called robber barons?

Answer 28

used ruthless tactics to a mass great wealth at the expense of workers

Question 29

All of the reason the south industrialize more slowly than the North did except.

Answer 29

Social Darwinism

Question 30

Campaigned for basic trade Unions and a right to picket.

Answer 30

Samuel Gompers

Question 31

Union officials representing the workers negotiate with management

Answer 31

Collective Bargaining

Question 32

Attempted to form an industrial union, American Railroad Union

Answer 32

Eugene v. Debs

Question 33

Most Prominent organizer in the women’s labor movement

Answer 33

Mary Harris Jones

Question 34

Group of radical unionists and socialist in Chicago.

Answer 34

Industrial Workers of the world (IWW)

Question 35

All of the following are reason for workers to form unions in the late 19th century except?

a. Long work days
b. Low Wages
c. Two day weekends
d. Lack of safety equipment

Answer 35

c. Two day weekends

Question 36

What factors limited the success of unions

Answer 36

government support of management and the use of violence on strikes