$2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 Vocabulary I Vocabulary II Inventors and Inventions Industry and Industrialists Labor Unions And Labor Conflicts
The doctrine that government should not interfere in economic affairs
Laissez-faire
The practice of combining separate companies into one
Consolidation
Discount or return of part of a payment
Rebate
A group sharing in some activity, for example among railroad barons who made secret agreements and set rates among themselves
Pool
Define mass production
The production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line
A system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as items pass before him or her
Assembly Line
A business in which investors own shares
Corporation
Shares of ownership a company sells in its business which often carry voting power
Stock
Organization of workers with the same trade or skill
Trade Union
Define collective bargaining
Discussion between an employer and union representatives of workers over wages, hours and working conditions
Operators sent messages in morse code Offers instant communication Connects United States and Europe
Telegraph
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell – offers instant communication
Telephone
The electric light bulb was invented by this man
Thomas Edison
“Broke the bonds of Earth and see the world in a new way” Attracted attention of United States military in 1911 What is it and who invented it?
The Engine Powered Aircraft The Wright Brothers
Between 1860 and 1890, the government granted over 400,000 of these for new inventions.
Patents
These stimulate steel, lumber and coal industries
Railroads
This Captain of Industry made his fortune in the steel business, was a philanthropist and used vertical integration.
Andrew Carnegie
Owner of Standard Oil Company, used horizontal integration, philanthropist?
John D. Rockefeller
Who was Henry Ford?
Famous for the introduction of the first mass produced automobile and the use of the assembly line
What is horizontal integration?
Combining competing companies into one corporation
When collective bargaining failed, labor unions often used these to achieve their aims
Strikes
strike at Carnegie Steel plant to protest a wage cut
Homestead Strike
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act
An ineffective and rarely enforced piece of legislation that prohibited monopolies and pools
What is a strike breaker?
Person hired to replace a striking worker in order to break up a strike
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union was formed as a result of this incident
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Final Jeopardy Answer
Final Jeopardy Question