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History, freedom
working for freedom
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An organization of workers with the same skills | Trade Union |
| Reduction in cost of a good brought about by increased size of a production facility | Economies of Scale |
| Combining companies that supply equipment and services for a particular industry | Vertical Integration |
| Letting an impartial outsider settle a dispute | Arbitration |
| Person who takes business risks for profit | Entrepreneur |
| Combining of firms or corporations formed by legal agreement, especially to reduce competition | Trust |
| Organization of common laborers in a particular industry | Industrial Union |
| Region that keeps the same standard time | Time Zone |
| Total control of an industry by a person or company | Monopoly |
| Costs of a company pays whether or not it is operating | Fixed Costs |
| Groups sharing in some activity | Pool |
| Theory of socialism that advocates a classless society | Marxism |
| Combining competing firms into one corporation | Horizontal Integration |
| Costs that occur while running a company | Operating costs |
| Company whose primary business is owning a controlling sharing of stock in other companies | Holding Company |
| A company that agrees to hire only union members | Closed Shop |
| Freeland given to railroads | Land Grants |
| A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facility | lockout |
| Rise in the value of money that results in lower prices | Deflation |
| Organization owned by many people | Corporation |
| Total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year | Gross National Product |
| Policy that government should not interfere in the economy | Laissez-Faire |
| Who was the suffragette who spoke at the Centennial? | Susan B. Anthony |
| How did Anthony break the law? | by voting when women weren't able to vote |
| How was Anthony's trial unconstitutional? | the judge told the court how to vote |
| What was the Gilded Age? | men who made money through railroads, mines and oil |
| How much did men in steel mills work? | 12 hours a day |
| How many miners died in one year? | 25 thousand |
| How many businesses failed in the first nine months of 1893? | 13 thousand |
| What was the IWW? | Industrial workers of the world |
| What right was taken from the IWW? | freedom of speech |
| What caused 25,000 women to walk away from their looms? | the mills took 2 hours of work out of their paychecks |
| Who said, "Time is the most valuable thing on earth."? | Sam Dumpers |
| What was Gomper's goal? | to improve working conditions |
| When did the Statue of Liberty arrive in New York City? | June 1885 |
| Which country gave the statue of liberty to the US? | France |
| What was the reason the statue could not be erected? | Nobody could provide the pedestal |
| How was money raised to create a pedestal? | he used newspapers |
| What is the title of the poem that is inscribed on the statue? | The New Collassas |
| Who was the woman who wanted to end the harshness of child labor in America? | Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones) |
| How much money did children make in the Alabama cotton factory? | 10 cents a day |
| Who were muckrakers? | Journalists that uncovered coruption |
| Who was America's first billionaire? | John D. Rockafeller |
| What company did he own? | Stanelard oil |
| Who was the reporter who investigated standard oil's unethical practices? | Ida Tarbell |
| Who was America's first social worker? | Jane Addams |
| Who was the first American woman awarded the Nobel Peace Price? | Jane Addams |
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