Chapter 14-15 Industrialization & Urbanization

5 Written Questions

1. Chicago railroad strike that paralyzed railway traffic nationwide
2. It closed the door on Chinese Immigration in 1882
3. an organization formed by workers to strive for better wages and working conditions
4. People who'd built fortunes by swindling investors and taxpayers, and bribing officials
5. United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)

5 Matching Questions

1. horizontal integration
2. Alexander Graham Bell
3. assimilation
4. monopoly
5. Thomas Edison

1. a Type of monopoly where a company buys out all of its competition. Ex. Rockefeller
2. b the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
3. c exclusive control or possession of something
4. d Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations
5. e United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices
   1. deflation
   2. corporation
   3. assimilation
   4. ragtime
2. United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
   1. Gilded Age
   2. Andrew Carnegie
   3. robber barons
   4. entrepreneur
3. an organization linked to a political party that often controlled local government
   1. Pullman Strike
   2. political machine
   3. motion picture
   4. Social Darwinism
4. the development of industries for the machine production of goods
   1. assimilation
   2. industrialization
   3. urbanization
   4. new immigration
5. SPECIAL ACCOUNT THAT PROVIDES MONEY FOR SPECIFIC TYPES OF EXPENDITURES, SUCH AS SOCIAL SECURITY
   1. ragtime
   2. trust fund
   3. graft
   4. tenement

5 True/False Questions

1. Dwight Moody → a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices

   True        False

2. Gilded Age → A large open area beneath a ship's deck, often used to house traveling immigrants

   True        False

3. holding company → a company with controlling shares in other companies

   True        False

4. Economies of Scale → Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

   True        False

5. new immigration → Immigrants from Northwest Europe arriving in the EARLY 1800s

   True        False