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The Industrial Revolution
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The Rise of Industry The Railroads Big Business Labor Unions Topic 5 10 20 30 40 50
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Question 1 - 10 Complete the Chart below:
Thomas Edison - ______________ ____________ - Refining iron into steel ____________ - Telephone ____________ - Airplane ____________ - The Assembly Line
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Answer 1 – 10 Thomas Edison – Light Bulb/ motion picture
Henry Bessemer – Refining Iron into steel Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone The Wright Brothers - Airplane Henry Ford - The Assembly Line
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Question The Southeastern coast of the United States is known primarily for what natural resource?
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Answer 1 – 20 Softwood Timber
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Question Explain why the population of the United States began shifting from rural to urban settlements in the 1800’s
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Answer 1 – 30 Jobs, Technology, Railroads…
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Question This man was known for creating the first Oil well ________________, in this state _______________
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Answer 1 – 40 Edwin Drake, in Pennsylvania
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Question What is “laissez-faire” ? And how did it affect the growth of American business?
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Answer 1 – 50 French phrase that translates to “let people do as they choose” This loose restriction policy allowed American business to thrive in the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
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Question The Transcontinental Railroad was made up of these 2 competing railroads
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Answer 2 – 10 1. The Union Pacific 2. The Central Pacific
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Question This “Robber Baron” was the most notorious of all, he was widely known to be corrupt, and manipulate stock prices to his advantage…
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Answer 2 – 20 Jay Gould
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Question Though many railroad barons were corrupt and worked for their own personal gain, this one did not, he is known for his work on the Great Northern Railroad
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Answer 2 – 30 James J. Hill
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Question This Baron made his fortune in creating a passenger train between New York City and Chicago
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Answer 2 – 40 Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Question This scandal involved many congressmen, taking advantage of cheap land grants, and falsifications of statistics in railway construction
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Answer 2 – 50 The Credit Mobilier Scandal
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Question Corporations raise money quickly by selling ___________ or part ownership of the company to investors
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Answer 3 – 10 Stock
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Question What is the problem with a monopoly (for the consumer) ?
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Answer 3 – 20 Monopolies can charge whatever they want, and people will have to pay it because no competition exists offering a similar product or service
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Question This man became a billionaire by creating the Standard Oil trust
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Answer 3 – 30 John D. Rockafeller
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Question Explain the difference between vertical and horizontal integration
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Answer 3 – 40 Vertical integration – a company owns all parts of the industrial process, from bottom to top Horizontal – A company buys out all of its competition
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Question What technique did Andrew Carnegie use to consolidate his business? What was Carnegie’s business?
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Answer 3 – 50 Vertical Integration Steel was Carnegies business
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Question What is the purpose of labor unions?
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Answer 4 – 10
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Question Provide one example of a labor union of the Industrial Revolution
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Answer 4 – 20 Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor
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Question Name 3 conditions a union might strike for during the Industrial Revolution
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Answer 4 – 30 1 – Child Labor 2 – 8 hour work day 3 – Higher wages
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Question This strike turned into a riot, when a bomb went off, killing 7, and leading to police firing on protestors, killing 10 more…
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Answer 4 – 40 The Haymarket Square Riot
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Question This man built a company town, in which he owned everything and allowed his workers to use it, when he slashed wages, and made it hard for workers to afford rent, and good in his company stores, the workers went on strike
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Answer 4 – 50 George Pullman
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Question Describe the workers of the Transcontinental Railroad
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Answer 5 – 10 Chinese Irish Civil War Vets, (both sides)
Failed homesteaders Ppl desparate for work
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Question Name 3 dangers of working on the Railroads
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Answer 5 – 20 Dynamite blasts Harsh weather Long hours…
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Question We examined the photography of this man ____________ who documented the living conditions of the Industrial American Why were people so open to being photographed by him?
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Answer 5 – 30 Jacob Riis Ppl didn’t know what a camera was
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Question Who signed labor day into law as a national holiday? In what year?
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Answer 5 – 40 FDR 1938
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Question The Big 4 – was the name of the 4 major investors in the Central Pacific railroad, they were: 1. Charley Crocker 2. Mark Hopkins 3. Collis P. Huntington 4. ________________
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Answer 5 – 50 Leland Stanford
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