Module 4 Vocabulary Review Autumn

What is the Second Industrial Revolution?

• A period of rapid growth in manufacturing and industry in the late 1800.

• A war that started in Great Britain.

What was the Bessemer Process?

• A process developed in the 1850s that lead to faster, cheaper steel production.

• An innovation of Henry Ford's that dramatically reduced the cost of production.

What was the "Haymarket Riot"?

• A riot over some free food.

• A riot that broke out at Haymarket Square in Chicago over the deaths of two strikers.

American Inventor of over 1,000 patents, he invented the light bulb and established a power plant that supplied electricity parts of New York.

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Grham Bell

What is a patent?

• a business that sells portion of ownership called stock share.

• Exclusive Rights to make or sell a invention

What was the "Moving Assembly line"?

• An invitation of Henry Ford's that dramaticlly reduced the cost of production.

• Owning all the businesses in a certain field.

What is the definition of "Horizontal Integration"?

• A railroad strike that ended when President Grover Cleveland sent in Federal troops.

• Owning all businesses in a certain field.

Who are "Orville and Wilbur Wright?"

• American Pioneers of aviation, they went from experimenting with kites and gliders to piloting the first successful gas-powered airplane flight and later founded the American Wright Company to Manufacture Airplanes.

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Who was "Alexander Graham Bell?"

• American inventor and educator and was able to get a patent for the telephone.

• Light bulb creator,

What is a "corporation"

• conducts business, realizes net income or loss, pays taxes, and distributes profits to shareholders.

• American business magnate and philanthropist.