Read & Cite (Indust.) CFU

Read & Cite (Indust.) CFU

8th Grade

16 Qs

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Read & Cite (Indust.) CFU

Read & Cite (Indust.) CFU

Assessment

Quiz

History

8th Grade

Medium

Corporations, Integration, Oil/Rockefeller

+6

Standards-aligned

Created by

Cole Battaglini

Used 2+ times

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16 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What industry was the first to see the rise of 'big business' and the creation of corporate empires in the late 1800s?

Transportation

Coal

Oil

Finance

Tags

Corporations

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Who was the railroad tycoon who built the most valuable railroad empire in the late 1800s?

Leland Stanford

Collis P. Huntington

Charles Crocker

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Tags

Railroads/Vanderbilt

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In the early 1800s, there was really no such thing as a "nation-wide business."

What technological advances contributed to the expansion of national businesses in the late 1800s?

Improved transportation and communication

Advanced manufacturing techniques

Renewable energy sources

Medical breakthroughs

Tags

Corporations

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Andrew Carnegie was able to buy multiple businesses that represented EACH STEP in the steel manufacturing and selling process. This business strategy is called...

Vertical integration

Horizontal integration

Monopoly control

Price manipulation

Tags

Integration

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What term is used to describe when one person controls more than 90% of a single industry?

Monopoly

Corporation

Trust

Integration

Tags

Corporations

Monopoly

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Who revolutionized the oil industry and controlled about 40 oil refineries in the late 1800s?

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

Cornelius Vanderbilt

J.P. Morgan

Tags

Oil/Rockefeller

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What law was passed in 1890 to break up monopolies?

The Sherman Antitrust Act

The Monopoly Regulation Act

The Business Consolidation Act

The Trust Dissolution Act

Tags

Monopoly

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Oil/Rockefeller

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