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Industrialization 2022

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Labor organization that represented both skilled and unskilled laborers and was the first national labor union in the United States.
Knights of Labor
Inventor that patented the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
A way of making steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove waste.
Bessemer Process
A system of business in which one company owns businesses in each step of the manufacturing process.
Vertical Integration
Powerful business leader who helped to found the Central Pacific Railroad.
Leland Stanford
Union leader who worked to better the lives of mine workers.
Mary Harris Jones
A method of negotiating for better wages or working conditions in which all workers act together is called
Collective Bargaining
The industrial revolution was a time in the late 1800's where advancements were limited in manufacturing and technology.
False
Inventions like telephones, cars, and planes improved the production of goods.
True
Inventions like electricity and the lightbulbs made life less efficient for Americans.
False
Business leaders like Carnegie and Rockefeller became wealthy through unfair business practices and used their size and strength to drive smaller companies out of business.
True
Are monopolies good for consumers and regular Americans like us?
No, without competition the price of goods goes up
What led to poor working conditions in factories during the industrial revolution?
All were factors that led to poor working conditions for workers.
Why did labor unions have a better chance of improving working conditions than workers did on their own?
There was power in numbers when collective bargaining.
Did the strikes of the 1880's and 1890's help or hurt the labor movement?
They hurt the labor movement because of the violence that took place during the strikes.
The desire for higher wages and safer conditions were two things that led Pullman workers to go on strike.
True
The person most responsible for making the steel industry a big business in America is?
Andrew Carnegie
The exclusive right to make or sell an invention or product is called?
Patent
A strategy that corporations used to consolidated power?
Vertical Integration
Which of the following was an inventor responsible for creating the practical lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
One cause of labor strikes in the late 1800's was that workers sought?
Shorter workdays
Invented the automotive moving assembly line.
Henry Ford
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