West and Industrialization

West and Industrialization

Identification (3 Points)• 1.Central Pacific

Railroad

Answer One• Central Pacific Railroad was one

of the two major railroads connecting the Midwest and the west. It began in Sacramento and ran east.

Identification (3 Points)• 2.Union Pacific

Railroad

Answer Two• Union Pacific Railroad was one

of the two major railroads connecting the Midwest and the west. It began in Omaha and ran west.

Identification (3 Points)• 3.Wounded

Knee

Answer Three• Wounded Knee was where the

final battle between the Army and the Indians occurred. This took place in South Dakota and 190 unarmed Indians were killed.

Identification (3 Points)• 4.Dawes Act

Answer Four• Dawes Act broke up the Indian

Nations. It gave each Indian 160 acres of land and the promise of eventual full citizenship

Identification (3 Points)• 5.“Long Drive”

Answer Five• “Long Drive” was the route used

by cattle farmers to bring their steer to market. This drive was very difficult and long as the ranchers had to go from Texas to Missouri and Kansas.

Identification (3 Points)• 6.Homestead

Act

Answer Six• Homestead Act was a law that

stated that the head of a family would be entitled to purchase 160 acres of land for $10. This law was passed to encourage settlers to move west to seek their fortunes.

Identification (3 Points)• 7.Laissez Faire

Answer Seven• Laissez Faire comes from a

French term meaning “let alone”. It was used to describe the governments’ attitude towards business. Government during the period of industrialization had few restraints on business practices.

Identification (3 Points)• 8.Thomas Alva

Edison

Answer Eight• Thomas Alva Edison was a great

innovator who improved existing inventions such as the telephone, electric power and the light bulb.

Identification (3 Points)• 9.Economies of

Scale

Young John RockefellerFounder of Standard Oil

Answer Nine• Economies of Scale is another

term used for mass production. By employing the techniques of mass production, business could produce products more efficiently and pass the savings along to the consumer

Identification (3 Points)• 10.Jay Gould

Answer Ten• Jay Gould was a businessman who

bought and sold small railroads. He sold these to the big railroad companies at a huge profit as the large railroads were seeking to consolidate and employ the principle of economies of scale.

Identification (3 Points)• 11.Cornelius

Vanderbilt

Answer Eleven• Cornelius Vanderbilt was a

consolidator of railroads in the east. He made many improvements on his line which was based in New York but later extended to Chicago.

Identification (3 Points)• 12.Corporation

New York Stock Exchange

Answer Twelve• Corporation is a company formed

by a group of investors who receive a share of the company in proportion to the amount they have invested. Corporations allowed the risk of business owning to be shared and stimulated the growth of industry in the United States.

Identification (3 Points)• 13.Holding

Company

Answer Thirteen• Holding Company was a

company created to hold the stock of other companies. They manufactured nothing yet allowed wealthy capitalists to own controlling interests in many businesses.

Identification (3 Points)• 14.Horizontal

Integration

Answer Fourteen• Horizontal Integration exists

when several firms engaged in the same kind of business are joined together. If a horizontally integrated business becomes large enough, it could achieve a monopoly of that industry.

Identification (3 Points)• 15.Vertical

Integration

Answer Fifteen• Vertical Integration is when

businesses engaged in different but related businesses are joined. In a typical example of vertical integration, a company would own the businesses which provide raw materials which are used in the finished product produced by the company.

Identification (3 Points)• 16.Standard Oil

Answer Sixteen• Standard Oil controlled 90% of

the oil business in the United States. Later, the US government decided that Standard Oil was a monopoly abusing its’ powers and broke the company up into several smaller oil companies.

Identification (3 Points)• 17.John D.

Rockefeller

Answer Seventeen• John D. Rockefeller was the

founder of Standard Oil who was accused by many people of being a brutal and shrewd businessman. He made Standard Oil into an efficient stable company. Later in his life he gave away millions of dollars to charity.

Identification (3 Points)• 18.Rebate

Answer Eighteen• Rebate is a discount. Standard Oil

received a discount of 25 to 50 percent on its’ shipping when they agreed to use certain railroads. This gave Standard Oil an unfair advantage over its’ smaller competitors.

Identification (3 Points)• 19.Andrew

Carnegie

Answer Nineteen• Andrew Carnegie was the

founder of US Steel. He created an efficient, vertically integrated business which gave him a near total monopoly of the steel industry. He was based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Identification (3 Points)• 20.Philanthropy

Answer Twenty• Philanthropy are actions which

benefit society. Rockefeller and Carnegie both gave away huge parts of their fortunes to charity.

Short Answer One• Who benefited from the

expansion of the railroads and who did not? Be sure to back up your answer with reasons for the benefits and losses for each group you identify.

Ticket on the Central Pacific

Answer• Benefited

– Steel Industry - Railroad Cars / Track– Lumber Industry - Houses / Ties– Farmers - Land/ Markets– Settlers - Land /Transportation– Government - Increased the value of the land

• Lost– Indians - Land/ Lives– Buffalo - Wiped Out– Smaller Independent Lines - Bought up by bigger

Lines (Economies of Scale)

Short Answer Two• What role did the railroads

play in the settlement of the Great Plains?

Railroads

Answer• Railroads opened up routes of

transportation into previously unsettled land. This allowed settlers to go there to farm while being assured that they could get their products to market. Railroads also called on the army to subdue the Indians which made the Great Plains safer for settlement.

Short Answer Three• What were the reasons for the

growth of American Industry after the Civil War?

Child Laborer

Answer• 1. Natural resources• a. coal- Appalachians and Pennsylvania• b. iron ore- Michigan and Wisconsin• c. petroleum-Pennsylvania and Texas• 2. Human resources• a. between 1860 and 1890- population doubled• b. 14 million immigrants in this period• c. males looking for work

1. kept labor prices down • 3. Government Policies• a. few governmental restraints-laissez faire (let be)• b. business got special favors from congress• c. liberal immigration policies• 1. cheap labor• d. federal government helped• 1. sold resources laden land cheap to industry• 2. cheap land to railroads• e. Investment- business seen as a good thing

Short Answer Four• How did the evolution of

corporations help to spur growth during the period of industrialization?

New York Stock Exchange

Answer• Corporations allowed for the

spreading of risk, pooling of risk, limited liability, and the raising of capital. Corporations also allowed smaller investors to “pool” their money in order to make an investment in a company.

Short Answer Five• Define the “Sherman Anti-

Trust Act” and explain why it was enacted.

Trust Busting

Answer• The Sherman Anti-Trust Act wrote into law the

principle that private monopolies which led to artificial restraints on trade or unfair trade practices were wrong. This law was enacted in order to address abuses by some big businesses who abused their status as monopolies such as Standard Oil and the American Sugar Refining Company. This law remains important even today as Microsoft has been taken to court in violation of this law recently.