Study Guide

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Chapter 14

• Study Guide

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Chapter 14 Study Guide

• Name at least three of the technological advances
  that made contributed to the industrial growth of
  the late 1800s
• 2. What was the goal of the Sherman Anti-trust
  Act?
• 3. Define Social Darwinism
• 4. What is the business cycle?

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• 5. How did industrial growth affect wealth
  distribution in the United States?
• 5. What was the AF of L (American Federation of
  Labor)
• 6. How did the government respond to the Pullman
  strike?
• 7. What were yellow dog contracts?

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• 8. Be able to identify the following
• a. Bessemer Process
• b. Charles Durant
• c. Mass production
• e. Samuel Morse
• 9. Monopoly
• 10. Scabs
• 11. Vertical consolidation
• 12.Horizontal consolidation

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• 9. What was the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
• 10. What was the industry that made Andrew
  Carnegie a wealthy man?
• 11. John D. Rockefeller
• 12. Thomas Edison
• 13. Samuel Morse

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• 14. Who were the Robber Barons? (describe)
• 15. Who were the Captains of Industry? (describe)
• 16. Why were some called one or the other, or
  both?

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• 17. What did scabs do?
• 18. Why were so many children employed as factory
  workers?
• 19. How was the theory of Social Darwinism used
  to support monopolies?
• 20. How would the business cycle be best
  described?

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Chapter 14 The Railroads

• 21. What were the names of the two railroads that
  buillt the first transcontinental railroad?
• 22. Where were the two railroads finally joined?
• 23. What was the Credit Mobilier scandal?
• 24. What was the only railroad built without any
  federal grants or subsidies? Who was the man that
  built and ran it?

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Railroad Men

• 25. Identify the following men (what was their
  involvement with the railroads). Include the name
  of the railroad each is associated with.
• a. Grenville Dodge
• b. Leland Stanford
• c. Cornelius Vanderbilt
• e. James J. Hill

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Railroad terms

• 26. Identify the following terms and their
  connections with railroad building
• a. Pacific Railway act
• b. time zones
• c. land grants