This is JEOPARDY Industrialism Review Mr Booth Alex
This is JEOPARDY Industrialism Review Mr. Booth Alex Trebek
Categories Terms and Names 100 100 200 200 300 300 400 400 500 500 Expansion of Industry 100 200 300 400 500 Picture Recognition 100 200 300 400 500 Random 100 200 300 400 500 Age of Railroads Big Business/Labor
Final Jeopardy
1. Vanderbilt-NY Central/Accessory Transit 2. Rockefeller – Standard Oil 3. J. P. Morgan – U. S. Steel 4. Andrew Carnegie – Carnegie Steel? Name the four Robber Barons discussed in class and their respective companies
What is a Union? Labor organization formed to protect wages and improve working conditions
Who are the Grangers? Farmers that fought railroad abuses
What is Socialism? Economic system in which government controls the factors of production for the public good
What is Collective Bargaining? Type of bargaining used in negotiations between labor and management
What is a SCAB? Replacement worker during strike or the nasty party left over on a wound over your skin
Who is George Pullman? This guy built a factory town to build sleeper cards. The town had many services and positives for families. But after employees pay was cut, this led to a strike.
Who is Credit Mobilier? This Fake construction company created the Union Pacific Railroad Company in which U. P. charged an exorbitant amount of money and “skimmed off the top "which created $23 million dollars for shareholders, congressmen, the vice-president, and future President Garfield
What is Munn v. Illinois? Grangers (farmers organization for reform) established a commission in Illinois “to establish maximum freight rates and prohibit discrimination” to help farmers and workers. This Supreme Court case in 1877 upheld this law which regulated railroads to serve the public interest.
What is the Bessemer Process? Process of taking out the impurities of iron ore, blowing oxygen on it, while heating it up to insane temperatures
What is the Lend-Lease Act? The U. S. sold airplanes, tanks, and guns to the Allies under the provisions of what Act?
Who is Andrew Carnegie? His company in 190 produced by far the largest portion of steel in the U. S. using the business strategy of horizontal and vertical integration. He eventually gave away 90% of his wealth
“Don’t Choke!” Daily Double
What is Social Darwinism? This business mentality or practice was implemented based on a philosophy by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection in which “only the strong survive. ”
What is Standard Oil? The Robber Baron John D. Rockefeller owned this company. By 1870, it controlled 90% of the country’s oil production by paying workers low wages and driving competitors out of business with extremely low prices
What is the Interstate Commerce Act? This Act was passed in 1887 to supervise railroad activities and establish a five member commission.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? This Act made it illegal to form a trust (form of monopoly) that interfered with free trade and competition.
What is Pittsburgh? Steel town USA in the early 1900’s because of its location on three rivers – The Allegheny, Ohio, and Monongahela)
Who is Thomas Edison? This “wizard” established the first research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey and perfected the incandescent light bulb
Who is Chris Sholes? This guy’s invention changed the world of work and allowed for women to join the workforce in droves.
Who is Edwin Drake? Developed the Steam Engine to drill for Oil
“Don’t Choke!” Daily Double
Who is Alexander Graham Bell? He gets credit along with Tom Watson for getting the patent on the telephone – which changed the world of communication forever.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt? This man
What is the Central Pacific? These Chinese Immigrants worked on this railroad company
What is Carbon? Process that removed this impurity from Iron Ore
What is building codes such as the implementation of sprinkler systems, and fire escape doors ? 146 female deaths in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire led to these regulations
What is Kristallnacht? Night where Germans smashed the windows and burned Jewish buildings and synagogues.
Who is Eugene Debs? Formed the ARU industrial union(American Railway Union) of unskilled and semi-skilled workers. One of the first unions.
Who is Samuel Gompers? Led the Cigar Maker’s International Union and was the president of the AFL (American Federation of Labor)which focused on collective bargaining and higher wages for its members
What is the Homestead Strike? Steelworkers strike at Carnegie Steel Company in Pennsylvania against company president Henry Frick.
Who is Professor C. F. Dowd (1869)? Professor who created the earth’s 24 time zones and four main zones in U. S.
Who is Chris Sholes? Invented this
- Slides: 36