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WorksheetsTerms for Rise of Industry Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 9mins
Match the following terms with their definitions:
Bessemer Process
Process by which steel is made cheaper and stronger
Commerce
Doing business on a large scale
Second Industrial Revolution
A phase of rapid industrialization in the late 19th century and early 20th.
Match the following individuals with their associated industries or innovations:
Shipping Industry: Railroads and boats
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Standard Oil, Vertical and horizontal integration
John Rockefeller
Carnegie steel, Bessemer process
Andrew Carnegie
Match the resource with its definition:
Resources that involve the use of people
Human Resources
Resources that involve the use of money
Capital Resources
Resources found in nature
Natural Resources
This represents part ownership in a company
Stock
Bond
Loan
Dividend
Part of a company's profits that are shared with the stockholders
Dividends
Interest
Capital Gains
Retained Earnings
owned by many people known as stockholders
Resources
Dividends
Stock
Corporation
A place where stocks can be bought and sold
Stock Exchange
Mass Production
Stockington
Corporations
People who own stock that represents part ownership in a company
Stockholders
Stock Exchange
Corporations
Sloth-holders
Workers stay in one place as products edge along a moving belt known as the ________.
Assembly Line
Production Cycle
Industry
Conveyor Process
Economic activity concerned with processing raw materials to finished products
Assembly Line
Production Cycle
Industry
Conveyor Process
Exclusive rights to make or sell inventions are called ________.
Patents
Trademarks
Copyrights
Licenses
Businesses are connected and rely on one another
Interdependence
Free Enterprise
A business owned by one person
Corporation
When a company owns all or nearly all of the business in an industry
Monopoly
Free Enterprise
Mass Production
Commerce
Match the following
Width of a railroad track
Gauge
When railroad companies divided up businesses in a certain area
Pool
Something that can be looked to for help
Resource
Discounts given to businesses that ship large quantities of goods
Rebate
Formed to oversee the railroad industry
Interstate Commerce Commission
(ICC)
Interstate Commerce Act
(ICA)
Consolidate
Interstate
Businesses that cross state lines
Interstate Commerce Commission
(ICC)
Interstate Commerce Act
(ICA)
Consolidate
Interstate commerce
