JEOPARDY

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JEOPARDY

• Industrialization in the U.S.

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Inventions
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Hodge Podge
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Final Jeopardy
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What is Alexander Graham Bell (patent) Elisha
Gray (inventor)?

• We know that the telephone has taken many
  different forms throughout the years. Although
  still over 50 of the people in the world have
  never made a phone call, who are the two people
  responsible for this invention and what did they
  do?

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The inventor who wanted to develop affordable
lighting for homes
Who is Thomas Edison?
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AND THE WINNER IS
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He was an oil tycoon who used horizontal
integration to decrease costs and increase profits
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
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He was a steel tycoon who used vertical
integration to increase profits
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
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He founded the Knights of Labor which was a labor
union that originally was a secret society
intended to broaden social reform (change)
Who is Uriah Stephens?
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He organized the American Railway Union (A.R.U.)
and was later arrested for his involvement in the
Pullman strike
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
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A small, hot, dirty workhouse
What is a sweatshop?
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Cartels, monopolies, trusts and horizontal
vertical integration all share this goal
What are increasing profits?
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By 1883, there were three of these that linked
the farthest western regions of the U.S. with the
more industrialized and populated regions east of
the Mississippi River.
What were transcontinental railroads?
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Negotiating as a group with the employer for
better wages or working conditions. (Pro sports
today)
What is collective bargaining?
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Economic and political philosophy that favors
public control of property and income. Believed
that wealth should be shared by all..
What is Socialism?
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Skyscrapers, railroads, and suspension bridges
were made possible by this
What is the invention of steel?
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Dont Choke!
Daily Double
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He created a quick, cheaper way to purify iron,
which resulted in strong, but lightweight steel
Who is Henry Bessemer (the Bessemer process) ?
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A grant by the federal govt giving an inventor
the exclusive right to develop, use sell an
invention for a set period of time
What is a patent?
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A system for turning out large numbers of
products quickly and inexpensively.
What is mass production?
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President U.S. Grant signed the bill that both
protected and created this first national park of
our great nation.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
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A union open to workers from any trade. It was
created by Uriah Stephens and later taken over by
Terence Powderly
What is the Knights of Labor?
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The federal govt formed this to oversee railroad
operations across the nation
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) ?
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The response to wage cuts at a Carnegie Steel
plant in 1892
What is the Homestead strike?
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This was created by Samuel Gompers and limited
membership to skilled craftspeople and focused on
economic reform (change)
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
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Dont Choke!
Daily Double
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This event resulted in the execution of four
anarchists and the decline of the Knights of Labor
What is the Haymarket Riot of 1886?
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A person who invests money in a business venture
to make a profit
Who is an entrepreneur?
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Complete control of a product or service allowing
the owners to have price control
What is a monopoly?
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A business in which ownership is shared
What is a corporation?
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These helped fuel economic growth by encouraging
people to buy American goods
What are protective tariffs?
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Businesses that make the same product and agree
to limit production are known as these
What is a cartel?
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He created a profitable company town and amassed
a fortune in the railroad car business
Who is George Pullman?
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Term often used to describe American
industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller.
What are robber barons?
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This consolidates (combines) firms involved in
the same business into one giant company.
What is horizontal consolidation?
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This allowed businesses to operate with minimal
govt interference
What is the laissez faire policy?
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People used this philosophy to condone their
business practices by arguing that the govt had
no business involving themselves into the private
business affairs of companies.
What is Social Darwinism?