Big Business

Owning most all of a product in one company is called

• unfair

• a monopoly

• a really big company

• successful

A way to efficiently process steel in order to make skyscrapers, railroads, etc. is known as

• The Beyette Process

• The Carnegie Process

• The Bessemer Process

• The Rockefeller Process

Andrew Carnegie is associated with all of the following EXCEPT:

• Gospel of Wealth

• monopoly

• steel

• Standard Oil

John D. Rockefeller is associated with which monopoly?

• Standard Oil

• Standard Steel

• The Haymarket Monopoly

• The Cornhuskers Monopoly

What impact did the use of electricity have on business?

• It allowed for longer work days because factories could stay open at night.

• It created very dangerous workplace environments.

• It shocked the workers into doing more work.

• nothing

What was the Transcontinental Railroad?

• A railway that connected the north and south

• A railway that connected the east and west

• A railway that connected the US to Mexico

• A railway that connect the US to Canada

Laissez-faire is an economic policy where:

• the government is "hands off" and barely, if at all, regulates business affairs

• the government is very involved in the operations of business

• the government heavily taxes businesses

• the government makes a profit from business success

desire to promote the welfare of others (wanting to help others), expressed by the donation of money to good causes

• monopoly

• philanthropy

• lassiez-faire

• trust

Collections of businesses owned by the same person or group of people

• nativism

• trust

• monopoly

• industrialization

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