Industrialization & Urbanization Review

Match the following

• consolidate

• Combining separate companies

• rebate

• A standard width agreed upon for railroad track

• Railroad Barons

• Powerful individuals that controlled the nation's rail traffic in the 1800's

• standard gauge

• Giving money back to customers who shipped large quantities

• pools

• Secret agreements to set prices along multiple rail lines

Match the following invention with the inventor.

• Henry Ford

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• Alexander Graham Bell

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• George Eastman

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• Orville and Wilbur Wright

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• Thomas Edison

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Match the following vocabulary words with the correct definition.

• Kill Devil Hills

• The name of the dunes located near Kitty Hawk,

  North Carolina where the Wright brothers flew their

  glider for the first time.

• Assembly line

• A company that revolutionized the way consumers

  could buy goods by creating a mail-order catalog.

• Model T

• The process of creating large quantities of similar

  products quickly.

• Sears Roebuck

• The name of the first automobile invented by Henry

  Ford.

• Mass production

• Where a series of workers in a factory work in

  succession to progressively assemble identical items

Match the following terms.

• monopoly

• organized the Standard Oil Company by buying up smaller oil companies and turning them into one corporation

• stock exchange

• a place where people buy and sell stocks

• John D. Rockefeller

• the purchase of competing companies in the same industry

• horizontal integration

• when one company is the single source for a produce and there are no close substitutes for the product available

Match the following terms.

• philanthropy

• when wealthy individuals or groups use their fortunes to benefit the community

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• law passed in 1890 to protect consumers from abuses by large companies

• corporate trusts

• acquired companies that provided the equipment and services he needed at all levels of production

• Andrew Carnegie

• built a steel plant near Pittsburgh PA and dominated the steel industry

• vertical integration

• allows individual shareholders of many separate corporations to transfer their shares to a single board that gave them larger ownership over all the companies

What was the 17th Amendment?

• gave all citizens the right to vote

• allowed the federal government to collect income taxes

• direct election of U.S. Senators

• abolished slavery