Worksheets3.1 The Industrial Age
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 30mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A process for making steel more efficiently, patented in 1856.
a)
Bessemer Process
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Christopher Sholes
d)
Alexander Graham Bell
2.
Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Christopher Sholes
c)
Alexander Graham Bell
d)
George Pullman
3.
Invented the typewriter
a)
Christopher Sholes
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Pullman
d)
Interstate Commerce Act
4.
Invented the telephone
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
George Pullman
c)
Interstate Commerce Act
d)
Andrew Carnegie
5.
designer and builder of sleeper cars that made long distance rail travel more comfortable
a)
George Pullman
b)
Interstate Commerce Act
c)
Andrew Carnegie
d)
vertigal integration
6.
1887 law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
vertigal integration
d)
horizontal integration
7.
A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
vertigal integration
c)
horizontal integration
d)
Social Darwinism
8.
the combining of companies that supply equipment and services needed for a particular industry
a)
vertigal integration
b)
horizontal integration
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Monopoly
9.
Type of monopoly where a company buys out all of its competition.
a)
horizontal integration
b)
Social Darwinism
c)
Monopoly
d)
John D. Rockefeller
10.
theory that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle -(rich are rich because they are better)
a)
Social Darwinism
b)
Monopoly
c)
John D. Rockefeller
d)
trust
11.
Complete control of a product or business by one person or group
a)
Monopoly
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
trust
d)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
12.
American industrialist and philanthropist. Revolutionized the petroleum (oil) industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
trust
c)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
d)
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
13.
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors
a)
trust
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
c)
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
d)
collective bargaining
14.
allows the government to break up companies with control of a market; prevents monopolies
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
b)
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
c)
collective bargaining
d)
Eugene V. Debs
15.
a national organization of labor unions founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers
a)
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
b)
collective bargaining
c)
Eugene V. Debs
d)
Socialism
16.
negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
a)
collective bargaining
b)
Eugene V. Debs
c)
Socialism
d)
Industrial Workers of the World
17.
1. Head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman Strike; 2. he was imprisoned along with his associates for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking. 3. While in prison, he read Socialist literature and emerged as a Socialist leader in America.
a)
Eugene V. Debs
b)
Socialism
c)
Industrial Workers of the World
d)
scab
18.
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
a)
Socialism
b)
Industrial Workers of the World
c)
scab
d)
Bessemer Process
19.
a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States
a)
Industrial Workers of the World
b)
scab
c)
Bessemer Process
d)
Thomas Edison
20.
Negative term for a worker called in by an employer to replace striking laborers
a)
scab
b)
Bessemer Process
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Christopher Sholes
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