Captains of Industry 2015

Between the Civil War and WWI the US was transformed from an agricultural to an _____ nation.

• industrial
• civilized
• archaic
• agrarian

What were the four reasons Big Business prospered

• Faster planes, higher cost, internet, suffragist
• faster transportation, lower cost, advertising, entrepreneurs
• overproduction, limited resources, sanitation, political machines

Before the Civil War what percentage of Americans were farmers?

• 60%
• 70%
• 80%
• 90%

This inventor introduced the reaper, which bound bundles of harvested wheat with wire. Who was he?

• John Deere
• Elijah McCoy
• Cyrus McCormick
• Bill Gates

The use of machines to replace human labor is called_____.

• work
• mechanization
• integration
• liberation

Easy access to materials and energy, immigrant labor, new inventions and financial resources were all reasons why ________ grew in America.

• poverty
• farming
• industries
• agriculture

Which three big businesses transformed America in the years between 1870 and 1914?

• meatpacking, automobile,  and construction
• railroads, steel and oil
• textile, meatpacking and canals
• political machines, settlement houses and ghettos

He created the company known as Standard Oil

• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• John D. Rockefeller
• Thomas Edison

The theory or policy that the government will not interfere with business

• Entreprenuer
• National Market
• Laissez Faire
• Philanthropy

The total or complete control of a service, product or industry that prevents competition

• Union
• Robber Barron
• Monopoly
• Captain of Industry