Industy, Business and Technology - History 8 Ch. 19

Labor Unions were formed in order to

• try to negotiate with employers to get better working conditions

• to help businesses form monopolies

What is mass production?

• Making a small quantity of something very slowly

• Making a large quantity of something as quickly as possible

What does production involve?

• transporting products to other parts of the country

• making useful products out of natural resources

• buying useful products

What does distribution involve?

• transporting products to other places

• making products from natural resources

• buying or using products

What is a consumer?

• Someone who makes products from natural resources

• Someone who transports products to other places

• someone who buys, uses, or eats products that were made

What does industrial (industry) mean?

• Having to do with farming

• Having to do with factories and machines

A word that means one company has total control of an industry?

• stock

• monopoly

• labor

What is labor?

• recreation

• fun

• entertainment

• work

Who invented the assembly line method to make model T cars?

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Ford

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

Who dominated the oil industry?

• THomas Edison

• Henry Ford

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie