Unit 4: Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization

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What does the term "industry" mean?

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the process of making products using machines, factories, and the division of labor

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Which of the following factors did NOT aid in America's industrialization process? An abundance of natural resources, inventors and capitalists who invested in new technologies and factories, a large labor force, prime farmland

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prime farmland

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This invention was used to drill for oil and power trains and factories

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Steam Engine

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This process enabled high quality steel to be made quickly and cheaply. Steel was used for machinery, railines, and as a building material during the Industrial Revolution.

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Bessemer Steel Process

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Who perfected the light bulb and developed a system for electrically powering cities, factories, and machines?

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Thomas Edison

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What does the term "merger" mean?

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The joining of two companies

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What does the term "monopoly" mean?

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Also known as a trust, a monopoly is when a company has complete control over an industry.

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This individual used horizontal integration to gain control of 90% of the United States' oil supply in 1880.

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John D. Rockefeller

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This individual brought the Bessemer Steel Process to the United States and used vertical integration to gain a monopolistic control of the steel industry soon after.

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Andrew Carnegie

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This social theory applied the principles of Darwin's Theory of Evolution to human societies, arguing that the richest were the fittest and should be allowed to thrive, whereas the poorest were the least fit and should be allowed to fail.

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Social Darwinism