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Question A process in which a company buys all aspects of making a product from beginning to end.

Vertical Integration

Question This is a process where a company buys similar companies that create or produce the same types of goods.

Horizontal Integration

Question Costs that occur when running a company, such as paying wages, shipping charges, buying material, etc.

Operating Costs

Question A process in which one person manages other people’s property for financial gain.

Trust

Question A company that does not produce anything itself but merely owns stock in companies that produce goods.

Holding Company

Question A person who uses dishonest or exploitive business tactics to create wealth.

Robber Baron

Question A person who is benevolent and charitable with their money.

Philanthropist

Question Controlled the largest Oil company in the United States. (Person and Company.)

John Rockefeller, Standard Oil

Question Was the son of a banker who purchased US Steel for $492 Million.

J.P. Morgan

Question This person created US Steel.

Andrew Carnegie

Question This man invented the Incandescent Light Bulb

Thomas Edison

Question This man invented the Telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell

Question This process of making steel increased production and efficiency.

Bessemer Process

Question Thomas Edison’s facility in New Jersey was known as…

Menlo Park

Question These are the two forms of electicity.

Alternating Current and Direct Current

Question Children who sorted through rocks and slate to pick out coal were known as…

Breaker Boys

Question Young women and girls found most found work in…

Garment Factories

Question By 1870 there were how many children working in America? By 1911 there were how many children working in America?

1870: 750, : 2 Million

Question John Spargo wrote his 1906 book, _____________ which exposed child labor practices.

The Bitter Cry of the Children

Question This act was passed to protect children by limiting their working hours and establishing an age requirement for jobs.

Fair Labor Act of 1938

Question What were the two major labor unions in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s?

Knights of Labor American Federation of Labor

Question This man founded the American Federation of Labor.

Samuel Gompers

Question This person led the American Railway Union Strike against Pullman Rail Cars.

Eugene V. Debs

Question A riot broke out at the McCormick Harvesting Plant in Chicago where someone threw a bomb killing 7 police officers. Thus the police officers fired on the crowd killing four people.

Haymarket Affair

Question A strike in which Steel Workers fought with Pinkerton Guards hired by Henry Frick and Andrew Carnegie.

Homestead Strike

Question Most of the Railroad workers were from these two countries.

Ireland and China (Irish and Chinese)

Question Native Americans hated the RR because it impeded on their…

Hunting Grounds for Buffalo

Question The two companies that build the Railroad were…

Union Pacific and Central Pacific

Question The Government did what to help build the Railroad?

Give Land Grants to Railroad Owners to sell.

Question Who is the person who first surveyed the land for the Transcontinental Railroad?

Theodore Judah