Lesson 20–1, 20–2, 20–3, 20–4

Question 1

True or false: few laws limited the business practices of railroad barons in the early days of the railroads

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or false: the expansion of the railroads took money away from the iron and lumber industries

Answer 2

False, the companies actually grew

Question 3

True or false: the standard gauge caused confusion and created gaps in train service

Answer 3

False, it made train tracks, all the same and actually helped with confusion

Question 4

True or false: George M. Pullman, develop the pullman sleeping car for overnight journeys

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or false: the growing railroad Network re-distributed the American population

Answer 5

True

Question 6

after consolidation of the railroads, who controlled the nations rail traffic

Answer 6

Railroad barons

Question 7

Early railroad tracks were made of

Answer 7

Iron

Question 8

what did large railroad companies offer as incentives for their biggest
customers

Answer 8

Rebates

Question 9

The growing railroad network helped American industry, expand into

Answer 9

The west

Question 10

what did railroad barons form based on secret agreements to divide up business amongst themselves

Answer 10

Pools

Question 11

Who invented the gasoline powered airplane

Answer 11

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Question 12

what invention helped transmit speech?

Answer 12

The telephone

Question 13

Build a steam powered model airplane

Answer 13

Samuel Langley

Question 14

Introduced the model T

Answer 14

Henry Ford

Question 15

who built transformers

Answer 15

George Westinghouse

Question 16

Who was responsible for Laying a telegraph cable across the Atlantic ocean in 1866

Answer 16

Cyrus field

Question 17

Who invented the typewriter

Answer 17

Christopher Sholes

Question 18

Thomas Edison’s most important invention

Answer 18

Electric Lightbulb

Question 19

Who was responsible for creating the assembly line?

Answer 19

Henry Ford

Question 20

Louis Latimer did not invent, but he did vastly improve the

Answer 20

Lightbulb

Question 21

Businesses needed __________ to buy raw materials and equipment, pay workers, and to cover shipping in advertising cost

Answer 21

Money/capital

Question 22

_____________ was the ideal material for railroad tracks and bridges because it was stronger than iron

Answer 22

Steel

Question 23

three factors of production are_____________

Answer 23

Land, labor, capital

Question 24

A__________ occurs when two or more businesses combine into one

Answer 24

Merger

Question 25

What are people called who invest in corporations by buying stock

Answer 25

Shareholders

Question 26

what are people called who start businesses?

Answer 26

Entrepreneurs

Question 27

Gaining almost total control of an industry is called

Answer 27

Monopoly

Question 28

Who is the steel industrialist who donated hundreds of millions of dollars as a philanthropist

Answer 28

Andrew Carnegie

Question 29

which legislation was a response to the Public growing concern over trust and monopolies

Answer 29

Sherman anti-trust act

Question 30

Child, labor laws said that children working in factories, had to be at least

Answer 30

12 years old

Question 31

unhappy workers formed groups called_______ to demand, better pay and working conditions

Answer 31

Labor unions

Question 32

Companies hired__________ to replace striking workers

Answer 32

Strikebreakers

Question 33

What is it called when unions represent workers in talking to management?

Answer 33

Collective bargaining

Question 34

demands for a safer working environment grew after the

Answer 34

Fire at the triangle shirt, waist company

Question 35

In 1886 a group of national trade unions formed the AFL or

Answer 35

American Federation of labor

Question 36

when did the steel workers union lose members?

Answer 36

After the homestead strike

Question 37

what union leader led the pullman strike?

Answer 37

Eugene V Debs