Industrialization

Match

Match the technological innovation with its description.

• Improved transportation; could carry people and goods faster and farther than any other travelling system of its time; helped develop an interconnected national marketplace

• Improved powering machinery and transportation; major inventors with this new system were Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse; allowed for better motors

• Improved communication; invented by Alexander Graham Bell; allowed people to talk to each other instantaneously across far distances

• Improved the production of steel by making it quicker and easier; involved oxidizing molten iron with air; shortened the amount of time required to produce high-quality steel

Railroads

Electric Power

Telephone

Bessemer Process

• Railroads

• Electric Power

• Telephone

• Bessemer Process

Drag and Drop

Alan Nevins would consider Rockefeller to be a ​

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, while Matthew Josephson thinks of him more as a ​

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Captain of Industry

Robber Baron

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Carnegie's quote is about (the) ​

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, while Thomas Ladenburg describes ​

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Multiple Choice

"There was an unparalleled increase in factory production and mechanization. By the beginning of the 20th century, the major sectors of the nation's economy--banking, manufacturing, meat packing, oil refining, railroads, and steel--were dominated by a small number of giant corporations... Yet the rise of _?_ also produced many anxieties. Corporations were accused of abusing workers, corrupting the political process, and producing shoddy, unsafe products. Many feared that corporate power allowed companies to fix prices and influence government decision-making." - Digital History

• big business

• cattle industry

• farming

• child labor

Categorize

Options (8)

can hire large numbers of workers

can produce lots of goods

have unfair competitive advantages against smaller companies

tend to exploit workers

are more efficient, leading to lower prices

less concerned with pollution or environmental factors

have unfair influence over government policies

have the resources to support research and invent new technology

Separate the pros and cons of big business.

Pros

Cons