Quarterly Study Guide

Urbanization is the

• growth of industry

• growth of businesses

• growth of cities

• growth of potatos

Standard Oil is associated with which Robber Baron

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D Rockefeller

• JP Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

The assembly line allowed for

• mass production of goods at a cheaper cost

• mass production of goods at a more expensive cost

• the cotton gin to expand

• Faster operation of cars

An entrepreneur is someone who

• plays the piano

• sets up trusts

• sets up new businesses to make a profit.

• closes banks

This is a negative term applied to powerful nineteenth-century industrialists who were viewed as having used questionable practices to amass their wealth including eliminating competition

• Titan of Industry

• Captain of Industry

• Robber of Industry

• Robber Baron

A name for  a company that controls all production & sales of a particular (ONE) product or service:

• Corporation

• Trust

• Free Enterprise

• Monopoly

Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, involves

• buying out raw material producers and distributors.

• merging with companies producing similar products.

• forming trusts.

• using new methods to increase production.

What kind of people worked on building the railroads?

• pioneers

• immigrants

• homesteaders

• Native American

 Cities in the late 19th century expanded with the development of all of the following except -

• subways.

• skyscrapers

• airplanes

• suspension bridges

What was the original purpose of tenements?

• to alleviate slum conditions

• to integrate lower-class neighborhoods

• to provide inner-city housing for wealthy families

• to provide single-family homes for working-class families