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S.S. Ch 4 test
Sagorac
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Refusal of workers to work until business owners meet their demands. | strike |
| Factory or workshop where people work under poor conditions. | sweatshop |
| A share of a company that is sold to an investor. | stock |
| a company that has control of an entire industry. | monopoly |
| Person who gives money to a business or project, hoping to make a profit. | investor |
| Business owned by investors. | corporation |
| unfair negative opinion about a group of people. | prejudice |
| Variety | diversity |
| Person who buys or uses goods and services. | consumer |
| people | human resource |
| A type of system where people are free to start their own businesses and own their own property. | Free interprise |
| What is an example of a capital resource? | When a steel company uses a furnace to make steel |
| What was one of the jobs of a labor union? | to try and end child labor |
| What was the name of the immigration station were immigrants had to go before getting permission to enter the country? | Ellis Island |
| What was the location of the John D. Rockefeller's first oil refinery? | Cleveland |
| Where in Ellis Island locationed? | In New York Harbor |
| Why did Lewis Hine take photographs of children working? | To prove that the working conditions were very bad and dangerous. |
| Alexander Granham Bell once worked at a Boston School doing what? | Teaching deaf students how to speak |
| What are some of the inventions, invented by Thomas Edison? | light bulb, phonograph, power station |
| Who was one of the early union leaders in the United States? | Samuel Gompers |
| what industry was entrepreneur Andrew Carngie very successful in? | steel |
| What type of process made Carnegie's industry successful? | Bessemer process |
| Who was the country's richest and most powerful banker who invested hundreds of millions of dollars in railroads, steel mills, and other companies. | J.P. Morgan |
| what was the name of the airplane used in the first successful flight? | Flyer |
| Lewis Latimer helped improve the light bulb by developing a method of making what last longer? | carbon filaments |
| In oder for immigrants to be able to leave Angel Island, they had to__________? | prove that they had family members already living in the U.S. |
| Name the two brothers that had the first succuessful flight. | Orvill and Wilbur Wright |
| Mary Harris Jones, a strog supporter of improved working conditions for coal miners, came to be known by what nickname? | Mother Jones |
| John D. Rockefeller's oil company was called? | Standard Oil |
| Thomas Edison worked on many of his inventions in his laboratory in___________? | Menlo Park |
| What U.S. city was home to Andrew Caregie's successful industry? | Pittsburgh |
| Name the town where the first successful flight took place? | Kitty Hawk |
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