12/12/22

Question 1

a share of ownership in a corporation

Answer 1

Stock

Question 2

business that is owned by investors

Answer 2

Corporation

Question 3

share of a corporation’s profit

Answer 3

Dividend

Question 4

a group of corporations run by a single board of directors

Answer 4

Trust

Question 5

a company or group having control of all or nearly all of the business of an industry

Answer 5

Monopoly

Question 6

business owned by private owners

Answer 6

Capitalism

Question 7

a shortage, lack, or insufficient supply

Answer 7

Scarcity

Question 8

built the steel industry in the US; from Scotland

Answer 8

Carnegie

Question 9

set up an oil refinery in Cleveland, Ohio, from New York

Answer 9

Rockefeller

Question 10

an economic system in which businesses compete freely with little government control

Answer 10

Free enterprise

Question 11

replacement for a striking worker

Answer 11

Strike Breaker

Question 12

person who opposes organized government

Answer 12

Anarchist

Question 13

union of workers in the same trade

Answer 13

Trade Union

Question 14

right of unions to negotiate with managements for a contract

Answer 14

Collective Bargaining

Question 15

fire in 1911 at the TSF in NYC that killed nearly 150 workers

Answer 15

Triangle Shirtwaist

Question 16

cigar maker; formed AFL

Answer 16

Gompers

Question 17

secret organization originally led by Uriah P. Stephens then eventually led by Terrence Powderly

Answer 17

K of L

Question 18

head of the Missouri Pacific Railroad

Answer 18

Jay Gould

Question 19

the union in Chicago that called a strike against the McCormick Harvester Co.

Answer 19

Haymarket Square Root

Question 20

was a dressmaker in Chicago in 1877 and helped the RR workers by organizing a strike in Pittsburgh

Answer 20

Mother Jones

Question 21

International Ladies Government Workers Union; they demanded better pay and shorter working hours

Answer 21

ILGWU

Question 22

license for a new invention

Answer 22

Patent

Question 23

crossing or spanning the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 23

Transatlantic

Question 24

method of production in which workers stay in one place as products pass along a track or a moving belt

Answer 24

Moving Assembly Line

Question 25

process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply

Answer 25

Mass Production

Question 26

inventor of the light bulb; from Menlo Park, NJ

Answer 26

Edison

Question 27

inventor of the telephone, teacher of the deaf

Answer 27

Bell

Question 28

invented the first affordable car, Model T

Answer 28

Ford

Question 29

invented the first successful flight; flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Answer 29

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Question 30

built transformers to send electrical power much cheaper in 1885 and built air brakes for trains

Answer 30

Westinghouse

Question 31

invented refrigerated RR cars for meat products

Answer 31

Swift

Question 32

made an easier way to link RR cars together

Answer 32

Jannery

Question 33

invented the Pullman sleeping car

Answer 33

Pullman

Question 34

lead the foundation for telegraph cables from the US to Europe across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866

Answer 34

Field

Question 35

invented the small camera in 1888.

Answer 35

Eastman

Question 36

invented the vacuum in 1899

Answer 36

Thurman

Question 37

on AA who invented a way to send messages

Answer 37

Woods

Question 38

an AA man who invented magnetic airbrakes for trains and a shoe making machine

Answer 38

Matzeliger

Question 39

workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay

Answer 39

Sweatshop