Becoming an Industrial Society Study Guide
1.Name three reasons why the United States became the world’s leading economy.
2.What policy mandates that the government will not interfere in people’s lives?
3.What laws protected American businesses from foreign competition?
4.What is the idea that large businesses can operate more efficiently?
5.Who invented the telephone?
6.Who perfected the incandescent light bulb and the phonograph?
7.What industry helped bring about standardized time zones?
8.Why did some people dislike big businesses?
9.What are the advantages of big businesses?
10.What was Horatio Alger known for?
11.What is a type of business that controls the supply of a product called?
12.What is a business that controls all other companies of the same type called?
13.What is a business that controls other companies that contribute to that industry called?
14.Who was the leader of the Standard Oil Company?
15.Who was the leader of the steel industry?
16.Who was the major banking leader in the nation?
17.Who was the leading railroad owner?
18.Who wrote an article exposing the evils of the Standard Oil Company?
19.What is the theory that the best business will survive and prosper called?
20.What is the practice of giving away large sums of wealth called?
21.What is the name given to the major owners of the big businesses?
22.What federal law attempted to regulate the activities of big businesses?
23.What is a monopoly that is formed by creating one large company out of several companies called?
24.What is a monopoly that is formed by the leaders of several businesses acting as one called?
25.Describe working conditions in the late 1800’s.
26.What was a company town?
27.What is the job of a labor union?
28.What method did unions use to try and achieve their goals?
29.What is a blacklist?
30.What is a lockout?
31.What were replacement workers called?
32.What is a court order to stop striking called?
33.In what way did the federal government get involved in strikes?
34.Which labor union accepted all types of workers?
35.What happened at Haymarket Square that hurt the goal of unions?
36.What type of worker was allowed to join the AFL?
37.How was an industrial union different?
38.Who was the leader of the Knights of Labor?
39.Who led the AFL?
40.Who started the industrial union movement?
41.Where were the first immigrants to the United States from?
42.What advantages did these immigrants have?
43.How did immigration change in the late 1800’s?
44.What are ethnic neighborhoods?
45.What group did the government ban from further immigration in 1882?
46.What were three reasons that cities grew so fast in the late 1800’s?
47.What were the cramped, poorly built apartment buildings of the cities called?
48.What book did Jacob Riis write?
49.What was Riis’ book about?
50.Who started Hull House in Chicago?
51.What was Hull House?
52.What large American city was nearly destroyed by fire in 1871?
53.Name several things that began to improve the quality of urban living.
54.What term is used to describe the action of stealing money from the government?
55.What term describes the process of getting paid to give out government projects?
56.What is a political machine?
57.Why were political machines able to control an area?
58.What famous political machine controlled New York City?
59.What famous cartoonist helped to expose the corruption of the machine?
60.What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
61.Congress was often accused of being controlled by which groups in the late 1800’s?
62.Which President first began a campaign to reform the government?
63.Which President was assassinated over trying to reform the corrupt government?
64.What is the Pendleton Act?
65.What was the major issue in federal politics between 1884 and 1896?