Ch. 10

Question 1

travois

Answer 1

a sled pulled by a dog or a horse

Question 2

dividends

Answer 2

share of a corporation’s profit

Question 3

triangle fire

Answer 3

fire in 1911 at the triangle shirtwaist factory that killed nearly 150 people

Question 4

jerky

Answer 4

dried meat

Question 5

who invented the moving assembly line

Answer 5

henry ford

Question 6

first american corporation to be worth $1 billion

Answer 6

US steel company

Question 7

when did airplanes become widely used

Answer 7

during/after world war 1- useful because they could be used to see the enemy location, they could travel 40 mph, and could drop bomb on enemy positions

Question 8

john d. rockefeller

Answer 8

bought up oil refineries, slashed prices to eliminate competition, and utilized supply and demand to increase sales

Question 9

wounded knee creek

Answer 9

shot mistakenly fired, led to people shooting at each other

Question 10

andrew carnegie

Answer 10

controlled the steel industry by buying out rivals, buying iron mines, railroads, steamline ships, and warehouses- gave millions to charities because he believed in the “gospel of wealth”

Question 11

j.p. morgan’s industry

Answer 11

US steel company

Question 12

tepee

Answer 12

tents made by stretching buffalo skin on tall poles

Question 13

where was sitting bull killed

Answer 13

wounded knee creek

Question 14

supply and demand

Answer 14

an economic theory in which the price of a resource is determined by the availability of the resource and the demand for it

Question 15

haymarket riot

Answer 15

labor rally in chicago that ended in violence when a bomb exploded

Question 16

4 examples of what bulls were used for

Answer 16

food
shelter
clothing
tools

Question 17

wright brothers

Answer 17

orville and wilbur wright flew the first plane which flew 150 feet in 12 seconds

Question 18

anarchists

Answer 18

people who oppose all forms of organized government

Question 19

where did sitting bull get killed

Answer 19

wounded knee creek

Question 20

andrew carnegie’s company

Answer 20

carnegie steel

Question 21

strikebreaker

Answer 21

replacements for striking workers

Question 22

reservation

Answer 22

a limited area of land set aside for native americans

Question 23

who bought who’s company and what were the names of the companies

Answer 23

j.p. morgan bout andrew carnegie’s industry- carnegie steel became the US steel company

Question 24

afl (american federation of labor )

Answer 24

organization of trade unions that represented skilled workers

Question 25

sherman antitrust act

Answer 25

a law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies of the US

Question 26

trade union

Answer 26

a union of persons working in the same trade

Question 27

battle of little bighorn

Answer 27

battle where 225 soldiers from the 7th calvary where col. george a. custer were killed by indians led by sitting bull and crazy horse

Question 28

corral

Answer 28

enclosure

Question 29

corporation

Answer 29

business owned by investors

Question 30

fort laramie treaty

Answer 30

native americans had to stay in one place in exchange for gov. protection and aid

Question 31

who created the standard oil company

Answer 31

john d. rockefeller

Question 32

3 captains of industry

Answer 32

andrew carnegie- carnegie steel industry j.p. morgan- US steel industry john d. rockefeller- standard oil company

Question 33

thomas edison

Answer 33

built a research lab in ny, invented the light bulb, phonograph, first electric power plant, and moving pictures and short movies

Question 34

bessemer process

Answer 34

william kelly and henry bessemer discovered a new way to make steel, it enabled the production of steel at a low cost; railroads replaced iron with steel

Question 35

why were trusts good and why were they bad

Answer 35

they were good because they could compete by selling the best products at the lowest prices and the wages increased; they were bad because they eliminated competition and hurt smaller businesses

Question 36

what did capitalism own and what did this allow companies to do

Answer 36

private citizens with a free market; to sell and buy goods as needed

Question 37

vertical integration

Answer 37

gaining control of all the steps used to change raw materials into finished products

Question 38

another creek where 150 innocent people were killed

Answer 38

sound creek massacre

Question 39

sweatshops

Answer 39

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

Question 40

ilgwu (international ladies' garments workers union)

Answer 40

union of garment workers

Question 41

trust

Answer 41

a group of corporations run by a single board of directors

Question 42

where did the first airplane fly

Answer 42

kitty hawk, north carolina

Question 43

what happened on the plains with the buffalo and who did this hurt and why

Answer 43

buffalo were killed by buffalo hunters, this hurt the plains' indians because they used the buffalo for a lot of things

Question 44

alexander graham bell

Answer 44

invented the phone

Question 45

when did planes first catch on

Answer 45

after world war II

Question 46

scarcity

Answer 46

a state of limited sources

Question 47

standard oil company

Answer 47

company created by john d. rockefeller, it was a monopoly that controlled 95% of america's oil company

Question 48

moving assembly line

Answer 48

greatly reduced time to make an automobile and mass production of cars and other products started soon after

Question 49

capitalism

Answer 49

business owned by private citizens

Question 50

collective bargaining

Answer 50

the right of unions to negotiate with management for workers as a group

Question 51

j.p. morgan

Answer 51

used banking skills to make high profits to control corporations, bought up troubled corporation and reduced competition

Question 52

monopoly

Answer 52

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

Question 53

knights of labor

Answer 53

american labor organization to protect the rights of workers

Question 54

stock

Answer 54

partial ownership of the company

Question 55

dawes act

Answer 55

gave land to native americans by dividing reservations for farming to adopt to white customs; land was not good for farming so the native americans sold the land to white settlers