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Chapter 6 A New Industrial Age. Question 1 - 10. This Quaker State gentleman successfully drilled for oil by using steam power to drive the drill. Answer 1 – 10. Edwin Drake. Question 1 - 20.
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Question 1 - 10 • This Quaker State gentleman successfully drilled for oil by using steam power to drive the drill.
Answer 1 – 10 • Edwin Drake
Question 1 - 20 • Without this person’s process of blowing air through molten iron, skyscrapers would not have been possible.
Answer 1 – 20 • Henry Bessemer
Question 1 - 30 • Name two of the natural resources which made industrialization in America extremely successful.
Answer 1 – 30 • Coal, iron ore, oil, natual gas.
Question 1 - 40 • This qwerty invention was developed by……
Answer 1 – 40 • Christopher Sholes
Question 1 - 50 • His illuminating invention brought many people out of the dark. He also was successful in his bid to electrify New York.
Answer 1 – 50 • Thomas Edison.
Question 2 - 10 • America was brought together by the transcontinental railroad at what Point?
Answer 2 – 10 • Promontory Point, Utah
Question 2 - 20 • In order to make the trains run on time in each region of the country, Professor Dowd creates……..
Answer 2 – 20 • Standardized time zones
Question 2 - 30 • The ultimate control freak, this man builds a town to house his employees in order to control them in the off hours as well.
Answer 2 – 30 • Pullman builds Pullman, IL, one of the first company towns in America.
Question 2 - 40 • This company built railroads and charged the owners two to three times the normal rate and they were happy about it.
Answer 2 – 40 • Credit Mobilier. The owners pocketed the cash and bought politicians with the proceeds. • Stockholders in the railroads weren’t as happy, they lost money.
Question 2 - 50 • This Act established the right of the federal government to regulate railroads. It was not successful at first.
Answer 2 – 50 • Interstate Commerce Act. It was supposed to control rates and regulate passenger service as well.
Question 3 - 10 • This organization began demanding governmental control over the railroads
Answer 3 – 10 • The Grange. Farmers were upset over rates and fairness issues.
Question 3 - 20 • That thing found in many teenagers hand was invented by…..
Answer 3 – 20 • Alexander Graham Bell
Question 3 - 30 • This term comes from Medieval times and was used to describe unscrupulous businessmen who had too much control.
Answer 3 – 30 • Robber Baron
Question 3 - 40 • These laws were “to establish maximum freight and passenger rates and prohibit discrimination.”
Answer 3 – 40 • Granger laws. Munn v. Illinois upheld many of the state laws.
Question 3 - 50 • This allows businesses to be built away from rivers. They can now locate to anywhere they want to.
Answer 3 – 50 • Electricity
Question 4 - 10 • This man of steel accounted for 80% of the steel made in the U.S. His new accounting procedures led to improved cost controls.
Answer 4 – 10 • Andrew Carnegie
Question 4 - 20 • Buying out the supply chain, from raw materials to manufacturing, to the final sale is known as…..
Answer 4 – 20 • Vertical integration
Question 4 - 30 • This theory supported non-interference by government in business and stated that people got what they deserved, whether it be success or failure
Answer 4 – 30 • Social Darwinism
Question 4 - 40 • These were used to control entire industries, most successfully by John Rockefeller, when participants turned over their stock in a company to this organization.
Answer 4 – 40 • Trust Companies. Trusts were not legal mergers so it could be argued that monopolies were not formed.
Question 4 - 50 • This Act made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries.
Answer 4 – 50 • Sherman Anti-Trust Act. It was not successful in stopping trusts from forming.
Question 5 - 10 • Name two reasons that people wanted to form unions
Answer 5 – 10 • Poor working conditions, 12-16 hour days, 6-7day work week dangerous working conditions, no benefits.
Question 5 - 20 • He ran the American Railway Union and fought for a larger share of the profits for the working classes.
Answer 5 – 20 • Eugene Debs
Question 5 - 30 • This labor organizer led a children’s march to Washington, D.C. to protest for better working conditions.
Answer 5 – 30 • Mother Jones
Question 5 - 40 • Started in Baltimore, this strike spread to all of America and shut down the railroads. Federal troops end the strike.
Answer 5 – 40 • Great Strike of 1877