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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How was oil used by early Native Americans? | Native Americans traded crude oil that they obtained from oil seeps in upstate New York among other places. |
| What did Edwin Drake invent? | A machine for a purpose of getting oil out of the ground easier. |
| What did Alexander Graham Bell invent? | He invented and patented the first pratical telephone |
| What did Thomas Edison invent? | The incandescent lightbulb. |
| What did Nikola Tesla invent? | Modern alternating current electricity supply system. |
| What did C.F. Dowd invent? | The first person to propose multiple time zones for any country. |
| How was gasoline first produced/used? | Gasoline was actually a byproduct of the refining process of kerosene. It wasn't until 1892, with the invention of the automobile, that gasoline was recognized as a valuable fuel. |
| What was the Bessemer Process? | Developed by Henry Bessemer. Injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and transform it into steel. |
| What items was steel used to make? | The railroads, Joseph Gilden's barbed wire and McCormick's and Deere's machines. Steel made innovative construction passing. |
| How many people were injured or killed while making the railroads and where were they from? | In 1882, an average of 675 laborers were killed in work related accidents each week. In 1890, the fatility rate for railroad workers was 1 in 300. Asians and African americans |
| How were different people paid differently on the railroads | As little as 27 cents for a child's 14-hour day. In 1899, for example, women earned an average of $269 a year, nearly half men's average pay $498. |
| what was life like in the railroad town of Pullman, Illinois? what was available for the workers and what were they not allowed to do? | many employees were being laid off and the rest had their wages cut. So the decided to go on strike, Pullman refused to negotiate with the strikers. |
| What is the importance of Munn V. Illinois | (1876) was a united states supreme court case in which which the court upheld the power of state goverments to regulate private industries that affect "the common good" |
| What is the importance of the Interstate commerce act | Established the Interstate commission (ICC) as the first true federal regulatory agency |
| How did Andrew Carnegie look to make his product better | he took existing inventions , adopted them so that they would work for his busisness, and then continued to improve the process so that his products had value |
| describe the term "laissez faire" | a policy or attitude as letting things take their own course, without interfering. |
| The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service | monopoly |
| a company created to buy and process the shares of other companies, which then it controls | holding company |
| centuries-old legal agreement | trust |
| an article written written by Andrew Cornegie in June of 1889 | Gospel of Wealth |
| A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices. | Robber Barons |
| what percentage of girls and boys had to work? How well were they paid? What sacrifices did they have to make? How long did they work? | 20% of boys, 10% of girls age5-15 held full time jobs. They often had to work from dawn to dusk, leading to starvation and exhaustion, leading to accidents. Many children laborers had to quit school to work. |
| In u.s history, a political-action movement that form 1866 to 1873 sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform than through collective bargaining is what | NLU |
| First major American labor union. It was formed in 1869 as a secret society of garment cutters in Philadelphia is what | Knights of Labor |
| Established in 1869, the national labor union, more commonly known as the colored national labor (CNLU), was formed by African americans to organize their labor collectively on a national level, is what | CNLU |
| Is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the united states, is what | Industrial workers of the world |
| Refers to great upheavel, beganon July 14 in Matinsburg, west Virginia, united states after the balitmore and ohio railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year.This strike finally ended some 45 days later, after it was put down by local and state | Great Strike of 1877 |
| Violent confrontation between police and labour protestors in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became the symbol of international struggle for workers' rights is what | Haymarket Affair |
| A industrial lookout and strike which began on July 1, 1892,culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. is what | Homestead Strike |
| Was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest U.S. history. Is what | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
| describe the differences between vertical integration and horizontal consolidation | Horizontal integration occurs between firms whose products and production level are same. Vertical intergration in an integration is an intergration of two firms that operates in different stages manufacturing process. |
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