Chapter 18 Flashcards
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Why was steel so important to the industrial revolution?
Steel replaced iron for many things and it was cheaper to make steel.
What are patents? Who grants (gives) them?
A document that gives someone the sole right to make and sell an invention. The government gives them.
What is the Bessemer process?
A method to make stronger steel at a low cost
What methods of transportation revolutionize the way people traveled in the United States?
Railroads cars planes
What connected Europe and the United States in 1866?
The underwater telegraph cable
What did Henry Ford used to create the very inexpensive model T auto mobile?
He used and made an assembly line
What did George Eastman invent?
A lightweight camera
What did Alexander Graham Bell invented?
The telephone
What is an assembly line?
A manufacturing method in which product is put together as it moves along a belt
What was Thomas Edison’s invention factory?
It was a research lab where Edison and other scientists produced the lightbulb phono grass motion picture camera and other devices
Why was Andrew Carnegie called the steel baron?
He ruthlessly eliminated competitions in control of the steel industry he created an monopoly
What is an entrepreneur?
Someone who sets up your businesses to make a profit
What does collective-bargaining mean?
It means unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
Who was Mary Harris Jones?
She called attention to the poor world conditions of children and supported minors on strike
What is it a monopoly
A company that controls most or all business in a particular industry
Based on what Rockefeller did to eliminate competition how do you think he felt about it
He worked to completely eliminate competition often by slashing prices so that other businesses couldn’t compete. cost him money at first
More people wanted goods so factories that increase the number of what?
Workers or jobs
If a corporation wanted to raise capital what should it do?
It could sell stock or shares
What is a trust
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors
What factors contribution to city growth
Steel, new technology, public transportation
What is a settlement house
A center offering help to the urban poor
Who ran a famous settlement in Chicago
Jane Addams
What are tenements
Buildings divided into many tiny apartments
What did people do for excitement in the city
Went to stores museums orchestras art galleries theaters and circuses
