Read & Cite (Indust.) CFU

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History
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8th Grade
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Cole Battaglini
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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
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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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