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U7 L4 United States: Industrial Progress (PART 2) Flashcards

1
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What did Edwin L. Drake first drill? And Where?

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nation’s first oil well, Titusville, Pennsylvania

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2
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What was Drake’s oil well sarcastically labelled?

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Drake’s Folly

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3
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What is another term for oil?

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black gold

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4
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What was Oil first used for?

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  • make machine parts run smoothly

- light kerosene lamps

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5
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In many factories, fuel oil refined from crude oil was used instead of coal to do what?

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produce steam

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6
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What was another crude oil product that was used in the internal combustion engine?

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gasoline

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7
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What did Thomas A. Edison create?

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light bulb/lamp

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8
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How long did Thomas Edison’s bulb glow?

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40 hours

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9
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What was the advantage of electricity?

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  • quick energy source

- could operate communication systems and manufacturing equipment

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10
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What was the ‘horseless carriage’?

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motor car

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Who were significant persons who designed automobiles?

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  • Charles and Frank Duryea
  • Ransom E. Olds
  • Henry FOrd
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12
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When was the internal combustion engine developed?

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1860s

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13
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What did Henry Ford design?

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Model T

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14
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What did Wilbur and Orville Wright first do?

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fly the first successful aircraft

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15
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in 1908, who did the Wright brothers sell an airplane to?

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US army

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16
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What were the benefits of the airplane?

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  • faster distribution
  • made almost all regions accessible
  • air travel for business of pleasure
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17
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What were the different types of delivery that were developed?

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  • City mail delivery
  • Special delivery
  • rural free delivery
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18
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What did Cyrus W. Field make?

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transatlantic cable

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19
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From where did Cyrus Field’s transatlantic cable stretch?

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Newfoundland, Canada to England

20
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Where did the first transatlantic line lay on?

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Atlantic Ocean

21
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Who received the very first telephone message on wire?

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Thomas Watson, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant

22
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Was the public at first skeptical about Bell’s telephone?

A

yes

23
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What company was charted in 1880 and has become a communications company?

A

American Bell Telephone company

24
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What were the inventions that benefitted the modern business office?

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  • typewriter
  • cash register
  • adding machine
25
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How did the corporation system work?

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  • businessmen combine their capital
  • submit request to govt asking permission to establish org
  • investors who bought into org receive stock
26
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Who elects the directors in a corporation system?

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stockholders

27
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What do the directors appoint in a corporation system?

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company officials to set corporate policies

28
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In a corporation system, what happens when the corporation earns profit?

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stockholders receive share of profit

29
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In a corporation system, what happens when a corporation failed to make a profit?

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stockholders still own shares but do not gain profit

30
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Much of the capital that went into building large corporations came from what businesses prior to the Civil war?

A

shipping and trade

31
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What were the reasons for Corporations to merge?

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  • competing groups made same products

- convenient to merge with closely related industries

32
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In which industries did merging often occur?

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steel, expanding to coal fields, transportation, and blast furnaces

33
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Corporations became powerful largely through their use of what?

A
  • modern machines

- streamlined production methods

34
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How did expanding corporations sought to reduce competition and gain control?

A

building monopolies

35
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What is a monopoly?

A

exclusive control of a commodity/production by a business

36
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What was the benefit of eliminating competition?

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  • profits increase
  • sell goods at higher prices
  • larger market
37
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By 1905, 11% of the business firms controlled more than () of the capital, () of the laborers, and produced () of the manufactured goods

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C- 80
L- 72
M- 79

38
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Edward Harriman, William Vanderbilt, and James Hill became industrial tycoons in which industry?

A

railroad

39
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John Rockefeller gained fortune by controlling most of which industry?

A

oil

40
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Andrew Carnegie made millions by dominating which industry?

A

steel

41
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What is J.P. Morgan noted for?

A

banking acheivements

42
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What did Theodore Roosevelt enforce?

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  • antitrust laws against corp

- suspected of charging high prices or selling low-quality goods to remove competition

43
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What Act did President Wilson support?

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Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914

44
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What did the Clayton Antitrust Act do?

A

made certain methods used by businesses to remove competition illegal

45
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What was the Federal Trade Commission?

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  • 5 men appointed by president
  • enforced antitrust laws
  • protect small businesses
46
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Why were Labor laws enforced?

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prevent powerful firms from controlling employee:

  • working conditions
  • living conditions
47
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What are the benefits of Corporations?

A
  • increased employment/decreased unemployment
  • more production
  • lower prices
  • variety and better quality products

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