BIG Business

Multiple Choice

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which of the following was a goal of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

• End restrictions on Child Labor

• Join all workers into a single union

• Improve wages and conditions

• Admit women to the industrial workforce

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of this cartoon?

• The Senate is working for the people and not special interests

• Owners of business monopolies control the Senate

• Ordinary peole are not allowed in the Senate

• Senators can be bribed for small amounts of money

Multiple Choice

Overcrowded tenements

High Crime Rate

Poor Sanitation

What was a major cause of the conditions identified above?

• Muckrakers influence

• Westward Migration

• Rapid Urbanization

• Conservation Programs

Multiple Choice

In 1906, President Roosevelt passed legislation regulating the meatpacking industry. Which muckraker' book about meatpacking industry was responsible for prompting the investigation illustrated in this cartoon?

• The Octopus by Frank Norris

• The shame of the CIties by Lincoln Steffens

• How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Multiple Select

Select ALL of the following descriptions of a Captain of Industry

• Created jobs and industry

• Bribed politicians for favors

• Donated millions of dollars to charity

• Business efficiency led to cheaper prices for consumers

• Exploited workers

Multiple Select

Select ALL of the following descriptions of Robber Barons

• Created jobs and industry

• Bribed politicians for favors

• Exploited workers

• Donated millions of dollars to charity

• Conditions led to child labor

TURN and TALK - Read the following descriptions and determine if the person is being described as a Robber Baron or a Captain of Industry

Match

Match the Business leader with the description

• Henry Flagler

• John D Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• JD Morgan

Florida industrialists who built the Florida East Coast Railway and the hotels along the route

Leader of Standard Oil Company; Donated over $500 million to charity

Scottish immigrant who created the US Steel company; Believer in Social Gospel of giving to charity

Wealthy US Banker who loaned many of the largest industrialists the capital to grow their monopolies

• Florida industrialists who built the Florida East Coast Railway and the hotels along the route

• Leader of Standard Oil Company; Donated over $500 million to charity

• Scottish immigrant who created the US Steel company; Believer in Social Gospel of giving to charity

• Wealthy US Banker who loaned many of the largest industrialists the capital to grow their monopolies

Multiple Choice

What is the principal message of the cartoon regarding the Standard Oil Company?

• Used its economic power to influence government decisions

• protected the nation froom foreign competition

• Employed violence to gain an unfair advantage for its workers

• Used its size to lower the prices of its products

​TURN and TALK - Read the following situations and decide whether the situation described is Vertical or Horizontal Integration.

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Multiple Choice

Sam's Club purchases a fleet of trucks for home grocery delivery

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

Multiple Choice

GAP clothing owns it own textile factories in China

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

Multiple Choice

Rather than compete with the Marvel Comic Universe, Disney purchases it instead

• Vertical integration

• Horizontal Integration

Multiple Choice

Microsoft owns a plastics components manufacturing plant in Minnesota

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

Multiple Choice

Facebook purchases Instagram and Google purchases youtube

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration