Quiz 7 Review Industrialization, Big Business, & The Wild West
Jan 16, 2016
Quiz 7 Review
Industrialization, Big Business, & The Wild West
• What enabled American industrial growth of the late 1800s?
• technological advances (what are some examples?)
• How did the government contribute to the building of the transcontinental railroad?
• By awarding loans and land grants to private companies to build the railroad.
• What inventions revolutionized American communications in the late 1800s?
• the telegraph and telephone
• Critics of powerful industrialists referred to them as:
• Robber barrons
• What was the goal of the Sherman Antitrust Act?
• To promote fair industrial competition.
• How did industrial growth affect the distribution of wealth in the United States?
• The income gap between farmers and factory workers widened.
• How did the government respond to the Pullman Strike?
• using federal troops to control the workers.
• What was one of Thomas Edison’s major accomplishments?
• He helped make electricity more widely available.
• What did Alexander Graham Bell’s company do?
• Built long-distance telephone lines.
• What types of things were Americans able to build using the Bessemer process?
• Skyscrapers, larger bridges like the Brooklyn Bridge
• How did Andrew Carnegie gain control of the steel industry?
• by practicing vertical consolidation
• How did John D. Rockefeller gain control of the oil industry?
• He formed a trust.
• What happened at the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
• American soldiers killed more than 200 unarmed Sioux.
• What did the experiences of Chief Joseph and the Nez Percé illustrate?
• violent conflicts arose among settlers, the federal government, and Native Americans.
• What drew many new immigrants to the West?
• d. cheap land and new jobs
• What happened to Native American nations as many American settlers moved west in search of land?
• They were weakened or destroyed.
• How did the United States government interfere with Native Americans in the West?
• They forcibly took Native American lands.
• What technological innovation contributed to the cattle ranching boom?
• expansion of the railroads
• Whose interests did most American presidents protect in the late 1880s?
• Those of business and industry.
• A ______________ is a business arrangement under which a number of companies unite into one system. Trusts destroyed competition and created _____________ (a market in which there is only one supplier of a product and no market competition.)
• Trust / monopoly