Transcript Quiz 7 Review - Bibb County Public School District

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