Unit 9: Late Industrialization & Immigration

Who adopted the Bessemer process and made steel much more affordable?

• Carnegie

• Rockefeller

• Morgan

• Vanderbilt

Which description best matches the term "robber baron"?

• a leader of industry who used unfair and illegal business tactics to force other companies out of business.

• someone who their used their wealth and influence to improve the lives of the American people.

Term for buying and owning companies that all produce the same product

• Horizontal integration

• Vertical Integration

• holding company

• economies of scale

A term for owning the companies that supply a business with everything needed to make the final product

• shareholders

• horizontal integration

• vertical integration

• holding company

Who created a monopoly in oil?

• Andrew Carnigie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Henry Bessemer

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

What did many factory workers do to improve safety conditions, get shorter hours, reduce child labor, and wages (the money they were paid)?

• formed labor unions
• picketed business (walked around with signs explaining how unfair the company was)
• mechanization
• moved to the south
• went on strike (refused to work)

What are the crowded, unsafe apartment buildings that many immigrants were forced to live?

• Tenements

• Sod Houses

• Settlement Houses

• Insulae

Who was a photographer that worked to expose how the other half lived?

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

• Jane Addams

• Ida B Wells

When one person or corporation owns an entire industry, it is called

• A corporation

• A patent

• A monopoly

• An entrepeneur

Which of the following was an inventor of the late 1800s?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Thomas Edison

• Tom Scott

• John D. Rockefeller