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Indust./Segregation
VUS.8b,8c,8d
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define stock. | Shares of ownership in a corporation |
| Define stockholders. | Part owners of a corporation |
| What are 2 advantages of a corporation? | 1) Raise capital 2) Limited liability |
| What is another term for capital? | Money |
| What process made possible the large-scale production of steel? | Bessemer process |
| What new types of building were constructed with steel? | Skyscrapers |
| Who perfected the electric light bulb? | Thomas Edison |
| Who invented the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| What was the Wright Brothers invention? | The airplane |
| Who developed the conveyor-belt assembly line for automobiles? | Henry Ford |
| What was Andrew Carnegie's industry? | Steel |
| What was J.P. Morgan's business? | Banking or Finance |
| What was John D. Rockefeller's business? | Oil |
| What was Cornelius Vanderbilt's business? | Railroads |
| What is capitalism? | Economic system based on private ownership of property and free competition |
| What does laissez faire mean? | Government should leave business alone; let business do what it wants |
| Who wrote Wealth of Nations? | Adam Smith |
| Who developed the idea of laissez faire? | Adam Smith |
| What does racial segregation mean? | Separation of the races |
| What was another name for segregation laws? | Jim Crow laws |
| How did the Supreme Court rule in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson? | Racial segregation was constitutional or legal |
| What doctrine was established by Plessy v. Ferguson? | The "separate but equal" doctrine |
| What type of education did Booker T. Washington support? | Vocational education |
| What were W.E.B. DuBois' ideas for the advancement of African-Africans? | Legal and political equality for African-Americans NOW! |
| What was the purpose of the NAACP? | To gain legal and political rights for African-Americans |
| Who was one of the founders of the NAACP? | W.E.B. DuBois |
| What does lynching mean? | Hanging someone without a trial |
| What African-American woman led an anti-lynching crusade? | Ida B. Wells |
| What happened in the "Great Migration"? | African-Americans moved from the South to Northern cities, especially during World War I |
| What is a labor union? | An organization of workers |
| What union was blamed for the 1886 Haymarket Square Riot? | The Knights of Labor |
| Where did the Haymarket Square Riot occur? | Chicago, Illinois |
| Who founded the AF of L? | Samuel Gompers |
| What union was involved in the Homestead Steel Strike? | The AF of L |
| In what major strike was the American Railway Union involved? | The Pullman Strike |
| Who was president of the American Railway Union? | Eugene V. Debs |
| Who won the Pullman Strike? | The Pullman Company |
| Which side did government take in the Haymarket Square Riot and the Pullman Strike? | Big Business |
| What union helped women factory workers? | International Ladies' Garment Workers Union |
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