X Questions Guilded Age Test

Question 1

Tariff

Answer 1

Tax On Good and Imports

Question 2

Textiles

Answer 2

Factories That Makes Clothing

Question 3

Copyright and Patent

Answer 3

Deals With Written Material

Question 4

Richard Warren Sears

Answer 4

Owns Sears, Great Salesman, Terrible Businessman, first Sold Watches, Very Clever

Question 5

Monopoly and Trust

Answer 5

Trust involves one group of people running multiple companies, monopoly has to do with owner of one thing raising and lowering prices at their own will

Question 6

Capital

Answer 6

Tangible and Intangible

Question 7

Immigration From Europe

Answer 7

Northern And Western Europeans were Protestants and came as families and worked on farms with skill, Southern and Eastern Europeans were unskilled, poor, Catholic or Jewish, moved to the cities, came alone, made up 70% of ALL Imigrants

Question 8

Standard Time Zones

Answer 8

In 1894 27 Delegates all from different countries divided the globe into 24 time zones, one for each meridian of longitude and hour in a standard day. As a result if it is 8 am in our town it is 7 am in Chicago, Illinois 6 am in Denver, Colorado 5 am in San Francisco, California and 1 pm in London, United Kingdom

Question 9

Richest People in America

Answer 9

Department Store Owners

Question 10

Poll Tax

Answer 10

A tax levied on every adult, without reference to their income or resources

Question 11

Richard Sears Partners

Answer 11

Alva Roebuck and Julius Rosenwald

Question 12

What Does R.F.D Stand For

Answer 12

Rural Free Delivery

Question 13

What is the name of a pension plan made by Mr. Sears Second Partner?

Answer 13

Profit Sharing

Question 14

Mr. Sears First Retail Store Opened in Chicago, Illinois In ____?

Answer 14

1920

Question 15

The Last Decade You could place an order in Mr. Sears Mail Catalogue was ____?

Answer 15

1980

Question 16

Example: Capital and the Willingness to Risk it:

Answer 16

Partnership with Alva Roebuck

Question 17

Example: An Adequate Supply Of Natural Resources

Answer 17

Air or Fresh Water

Question 18

Example: Inventions and New Technology

Answer 18

Phonograph

Question 19

Example: An Adequate Supply of Labor

Answer 19

Woman or Children

Question 20

Example: Government Support and/or Encouragement

Answer 20

Supplied Loan Money

Question 21

Example: A system of Mass Communication

Answer 21

Telegraph

Question 22

Example: A system of Mass Transport:

Answer 22

Railroads