1. U.S. History Review
Unit 5

2. What did alexander graham bell invent?

3. Telephone

4. Who is responsible for creating the assembly line?

5. Henry Ford

6. What are people called who invest in corporations by buying stock?
Bondholders
Corporation bosses
Shareholders
Stock traders

7. c. shareholders

8. What are people called who start businesses?

9. entrepreneurs

10. Gaining almost total control of an industry is called

11. A monopoly

12. What is the term used to mean combining two or more companies into one?

13. merger

14. Which symbol of hope greeted immigrants at new york harbor?

15. Statue of liberty

16. Who was the photographer who captured the poverty of new york city?

17. Jacob riis

18. New immigrants arrived from which areas?

19. Eastern and southern europe

20. This is a type of residence that if often run down and crowded

21. tenement

22. Immigrants were expected to assimilate. What does that mean?

23. Adapt and learn the new language and culture

24. Which of the following was not a problem in major U.S. cities?
Pollution
Water Supply
Businesses
Crime

25. Businesses

26. This term means the Hands off Government policy during the rise of big business

27. Laissez Faire

28. What is the main reason the industrial revolution was able to begin?
Lots of money
Availability of natural resources
Smart people moved to U.S.
Business tycoons took over the government

29. B. Natural resources

30. Rockefeller was a tycoon of which industry?
Oil
Steel
Railroads
Coal

31. A. Oil

32. Which tycoon controlled railroads?
Rockefeller
Carnegie
JP Morgan
Vanderbilt

33. d. vanderbilt

34. What is the main idea behind horizontal integration?
Forming a monopoly
Buying competing companies to make one big company
Buying all the means of production to run a company
Creating trusts with partner companies

35. B. Buying competing companies to make one big company

36. What is the main idea behind vertical integration?
A. Buying all the means of production to run a company
Creating a labor union
Buying competing companies to create a big company
Creating a monopoly

37. A. Buying all the means of production to run a company

38. Why would a tycoon be called a robber baron?

39. Made a profit at the expense of the weak

40. This term means: Some people/businesses are stronger and better than others.

41. Social Darwinism

42. What is a person called who gives a lot of money to community programs and charity?

43. philanthropist

44. What is a business owned by investors called?
Sweatshops
Trust
Monopoly
Corporation

45. D. Corporation

46. The move from hand making things to machine making things is called?

47. industrialization

48. Which factor impacted the rise of the modern city?
Skyscrapers
Cars
Railroad
Education

49. A. Skyscrapers

50. What was the name of Roosevelt's plan to control big business?

51. The Square deal

52. Why did people move to cities?
Clean cities
Safety
Jobs
Food

53. C. Jobs

54. Which group of people weren’t welcome to emigrate to the U. S
Which group of people weren’t welcome to emigrate to the U.S. during this time period?

55. Chinese

56. A group that joins together to fight for their worker’s rights

57. Unions