
Railroads, Big Business, and Inventions
Authored by N. Connolly
History
11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This provided faster, more practical means of transporting goods, lowered production costs, created national markets, served as a model for big business, stimulated other industries
The Railroad Industry
The Steel Industry
The Oil Industry
Vertical Integration
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices
Trusts
Horizontal Integration
Monopoly
Phonograph
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded his steel company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
J. Rockefeller
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Perfected by Thomas Edison, this invention allowed factories to produce goods all day and night.
Phonograph
Light bulb
Kodak Camera
Radio
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
With the development of this invention by Samuel Morse, business could be more efficiently conducted between industrial centers in the East and their sources for raw materials in the South and West.
Telegraph
Light bulb
Locomotive
Phonograph
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