HONORS U.S. HISTORY
MR. WAGENBERG
INDUSTRIALIZATION IDENTIFICATIONS
1.
protective tariff
2. Bonsack machine
3. feeder lines
4. Great Northern
5. capitalist (n.)
6. air brake
7. Western Union
8. Bessemer process
9. refinery
10. Menlo Park
11. deflation
12. rebates
13. drawbacks
14. “Morganization”
15. corporation
16. monopoly
17. U.S. Steel
18. trust (n.)
19. General Electric
20. department store
21. laissez-faire
22. Social Darwinism
23. autocracy
24. Gospel of Wealth
25. Progress and Poverty
26. “unearned increment”
27. utopian
28. Wealth Against
30. Granger laws
31. Munn v. Illinois
32. Interstate Commerce Act
33. E.C. Knight
34. National Labor Union
35. Knights of Labor
36. Haymarket
37. American Federation of
38.
C collective bargaining
39.
o productivity
40.
m Homestead strike
41.
m company town
42.
o Pullman strike
43.
n injunction
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29. National Grange
VOCABULARY
44.
colossus
45. euphemism
46. vagaries
47. consolidated (v.)
48. standardization
49. track gauge
50. unassailable
51. prototype
52. miserliness
53. obsolescent
54. trustee
55. fiduciary
56. dominance
57. duplicity
58. inevitable
59. eminently
60. stimulate
61. inordinately
62. extortion
63. disparity
64. copious
65. anomaly
66. precipitated
67. fortuitous
68. rudimentary
PEOPLE
69.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
70. Jay Gould
71. James J. Hill
72. George Westinghouse
73. Edwin L. Drake
74. John Wanamaker
75. Henry George
76. Edward Bellamy
77. Terence V. Powderly
78. Samuel Gompers
79. Henry Clay Frick
80. George Pullman
81. Eugene V. Debs
HONORS UNITED STATES HISTORY
MR. WAGENBERG
Transportation, Industry, and Labor
Chapter 18
STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
82. Why was the new, speedier form of transportation necessary as the nation grew?
83. How were the railroads an industry in itself?
84. What features of railroads had to be standardized, and why?
85. In what industry did each of the following make his fortune?
A) Rockefeller
B) J.P. Morgan
C) Carnegie
D) Bell
E) Edison
86. What is a monopoly? What is the purpose of competition? How were shipping rates effected by a
“short haul” vs. a “long haul?
87. How did Andrew Carnegie manage to build his gigantic steel company?
88. What was the significance of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company?
89. Why was oil so very important?
90. How did the railroads assist Rockefeller in establishing his monopoly?
91. What was the significance of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887?
92. What is the difference between interstate and intrastate commerce?
93. What industry did this Interstate Commerce Act attempt to regulate and why?
94. What was the purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
95. What impact or effect would the above two acts have upon the concept of laissez-faire?
96. Why did labor (workers) attempt to organize? Be specific.
97. Of what significance were the Knights of Labor? Explain fully.
98. What caused the Knights of Labor to lose credibility?
99. Why was the American Federation of Labor successful?
100.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
101.
What was the most important “weapon” of the AFL and why?
102.
How were wage earners influenced by the expansion of industry?
103.
In what ways did women benefit from the industrial revolution?