Industrialization Test 2024

Front

Why was steel so important? What was it used for?

Back

Strong. Used for bridges, railways, nails, & skyscrapers

Front

Which three big businesses transformed (changed) America in the years between 1870 and 1914? Options: meatpacking, automobile, and construction; railroads, steel and oil; textile, meatpacking and canals; political machines, settlement houses and ghettos

Back

railroads, steel and oil

Front

Who created the company known as Standard Oil?

Back

John D. Rockefeller

Front

The total or complete control of a service, product or industry that prevents competition. (Think Rockefeller)

Back

Monopoly

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Who used the Bessemer Process in a factory in Pittsburg Pennsylvania, to mass produce stronger steel?

Back

Andrew Carnegie

Front

Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low

Back

Robber Baron

Front

Which industry did Rockefeller dominate?

Back

oil

Front

Andrew Carnegie believed the wealthy should help the poor

Back

Gospel of Wealth

Front

Henry Ford developed what idea of mass production?

Back

Assembly Line

Front

I helped to light up the world. Who am I?

Back

Thomas Edison