Ch3/4 Birth of Modern America/Imperialism

Mark all that are reasons for American moving West after the Civil War.

• Cheap land

• Gold/Silver discovered

• overcrowding in cities

• escaping persecution

This law encouraged American to settle the Great Plains as farmers.

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Pacific Railway Act

Mark all that are reasons for Inustrialization.

• lots of natural resources

• government supported buisness

• large population provided plenty of workers

• labor unions

What term is when the government let businesses do whatever they wanted to become successful.

• Laissez-faire

• free enterprise

• labor union

• Entrepreneur

This person invented the lightbulb and developed the way of our electrical system.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• George Washington Carver

• Samuel Gompers

Organization owned by many people but treated like a single person.

• industry

• corporations

• tenements

• buisness

Buying out the suppliers that help you make your product

• vertical intergartion

• horizontal intergration

• corporations

• Laissez-faire

McDonalds buying Burger King is an example of which buisness practice?

• vertical intergration

• horizontal intergration

Having complete control over an industry’s production, wages, and prices is called?

• monopoly

• verical intergration

• robber barron

• horizontal intergration

Mark all the men that were known as "robber barrons" during the late 1800s.

• Andrew Carnegie

• John Rockefeller

• JP Morgan

• Samuel Gompers

• Thomas Edison