The Impact of Big Businesses

The Impact of Big Businesses

Multiple Choice

Predict how Henry Ford's assembly line would change American manufacturing.

• It made it possible to produce goods faster.

• It created more jobs for immigrant workers.

• It made labor more expensive.

• It ended pollution in factories.

Match

Match the following vocabulary term with its definition

• Someone who buys or uses goods and services.

• Someone who puts money into a business to make a profit.

• Money earned by a lender when a business does well.

• Someone selling or buying goods in the same market.

• Someone who creates and runs a new business and takes on all the risks of the business.

Consumer

Investor

Profit

Competitor

Entrepreneur

• Consumer

• Investor

• Profit

• Competitor

• Entrepreneur

• Late 1800s: new inventions everywhere

• created jobs in cities

• workers left farms to fill jobs in cities

• led to "urbanization" --> growth of cities

• 1880-1900: # of factories & jobs more than doubled

• increased immigration

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Open Ended

How did new inventions lead to urbanization?

Open Ended

Choose a product or device and explain how life would be different if it were never invented.

• 1870 - John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil Company

• 1889 - Andrew Carnegie creates Carnegie Steel Company

• 1901 - J.P. Morgan creates US Steel Corporation

• 1903 - Henry Ford starts Ford Motor Company using an assembly line

• 1904 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company by Harvey Firestone

• 1918 - William Boeing's Airplane Company begin transporting mail for USPS

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Inventions & Businesses

Match

Match the product to which each businessperson is linked

• Tires

• Automobiles usinig Assembly Lines

• Steel

• Airplanes

• Oil Refinery

Harvey Firestone

Henry Ford

Andrew Carnegie

William Boeing

John D. Rockefeller

• Harvey Firestone

• Henry Ford

• Andrew Carnegie

• William Boeing

• John D. Rockefeller

Multiple Choice

How did Henry Ford produce cars faster and more cheaply?

• by linking the car industry to Detroit, Michigan

• by buying smaller companies and monopolizing the industry 

• by using an assembly line in which each worker specialized in a specific task

• through urbanization of the United States

• Cities linked to important industries grew

• Cleveland, OH - oil refineries

• Pittsburgh, PA - steel plants

• Detroit, MI - automobiles

• big cities were connected more by transportation

• raw materials moved in to cities --> finished goods moved out

• Pros: more jobs, better transportation

• Cons: crowding, traffic, pollution, dangerous work environments

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Cities & Businesses

Fill in the Blanks

In what year was there the BIGGEST difference between urban and rural populations?

Fill in the Blanks

In 1900, what was the difference in percentage of population between people living in urban and rural areas?

Multiple Choice

What was a significant cost of the growth of industries?

• Growing industries made different regions of the United States rely on each other.

• Growing industries created pollution.

• Growing industries led to taller buildings.

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  Growing industries led to the growth of cities.