Chapter 13 Inventions and Big Business

to refuse to work until certain demands, such as higher wages or better working conditions are met

• Strike
• Patent
• Trust

a government grant that allows only the inventor to make, use, and sell an invention for a certain time

• Strike
• Patent
• Trust

The airplane was invented by:

• The Wright Brothers
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell

What device did Alexander Graham Bell create that changed communications forever?

• telephone
• telegraph
• Internet

The Bessemer process, invented by Henry Bessemer, was created to produce...

• cotton
• electricity
• steel

Invented electric lightbulb

• Andrew Johnson
• Thomas Edison
• Ben Franklin

Explain the impact electricity had on factories.

• Factories had to close down early.
• Factories could remain open 24 hours a day.
• People began moving back to the countryside.

The business practice used during the late 1800's to eliminate competition was 

• increasing prices of their products
• paying high wages to their workers
• forming monopolies or trusts

Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan were sometimes called 'robber barons' because

• they robbed from the rich and gave to the poor
• they stole money from the government
• they used ruthless (cruel, uncaring) business practices

The US grew industrially during the period 1865-1900 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• Strong middle class workforce
• Lots of natural resources like iron, coal, & oil
• Cheap labor in the form of immigrants