Ms. Freund Unit Packet

Ms. Freund Topic Packet Honors US History

Topic 3: The 2nd Industrial Revolution – The Rise of Big Business

Directions: Answer the following vocabulary, people, identifications, questions, and sample test questions completely and thoroughly. NO CREDIT will be given for an answer that is copied straight from the book or any other source. This packet is not a collaborative effort. Do your own work. Ensure that there is NO QUESTION about whether you did it on your own. The entire packet MUST be handwritten.

SCORING: There are 2 grades for this packet. One grade is received for completion and one for accuracy. Accuracy is scored by whether or not each answer is correct. Each part is worth 20% of your completion grade. Understand that “doing the math” and not completing the assignment will also hurt your accuracy grade.

PART 1: Vocabulary Directions: For each term, write a full definition in your own words (when using the textbook consult the definition in the chapter rather than in the glossary to help you define each word )

Ms. Freund Topic Packet Honors US History

1. market economy

2. capitalism

3. social Darwinism

4. laissez-faire

5. patent

6. innovation

7. Bessemer process

8. mail-order house

9. corporation

10. stock

11. entrepreneur

12. vertical integration

13. horizontal integration

14. trust

15. monopoly

16. entrepreneur

17. philanthropy

18. anti-trust laws

19. gilded age

20. transcontinental railroad

Ms. Freund Topic Packet Honors US History

PART 2: Important people Directions: for each person, answer the following 2 questions (minimum 2 complete sentences): a) who are they, b) why are they important

Ms. Freund Topic Packet Honors US History

1. Cornelius Vanderbilt

2. John D. Rockefeller

3. Andrew Carnegie

4. Henry Clay Frick

5. John Piermont Morgan

6. Thomas Edison

7. Henry Ford

8. Henry Flagler

9. Wilbur & Orville Wright

10. George Pullman

11. George Westinghouse

12. Samuel Morse

13. Alexander Graham Bell

14. Elijah McCoy

Ms. Freund Topic Packet Honors US History

PART 3: Important Legislation and Supreme Court Cases: Directions: for each question explain how the act changed the way America did “business”. For Supreme Court cases, explain the ruling of the case

Ms. Freund Topic Packet Honors US History

1. Morrill Tarriff act (1861)

2. National Banking Act (1864)

3. Morrill Act (1862)

4. Pacific Railway Act (1862)

5. Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

6. Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)

7. Munn v. Illinois (1877)

8. Wabash v. Illinois (1886)

9. U.S. v. ED Knight Company (1895)

Ms. Freund Topic Packet Honors US History

PART 4: Guided Reading Questions Directions: Copy the question and answer it thoroughly on your own sheet of paper.

(Consult Shared Documents Americans 6.1 – 6.3)

Main Idea 6.1: Main Idea 6.2 Main Idea 6.3

A (pg 232) A (pg 237) A (pg 242)

B (pg 233) B (pg 238) B (pg 243)

D (pg 239) C (pg 244)

D (pg 244)

PART 5: EOC Questions: Directions: Write the entire question and all options then answer each by circling the letter of the correct answer.

1. What was one consequence of the acts listed above passed by Congress during the Civil War years?

a. Economic decline in the South

b. Increased trade with Latin America

c. Delay in completion of the transcontinental railroad

d. Post-war economic growth of the Northeast and West

2. These steps are all performed by a single company. Which of the following best describes the diagram?

a. Horizontal integration

b. Vertical integration

c. Trust company

d. Holding company

3. The cartoon above was published in Puck magazine in 1883. Based on the cartoon what conclusion can be reached about the US in the early 1880s?

a. Most American manufacturing was controlled by business monopolies

b. Some American critics felt workers were being oppressed by business monopolies

c. Government leaders were finally taking steps to curb the power of business monopolies

d. Business monopolies overcharged their customers but were essential to American economic growth