POWERPOINT JEOPARDY

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Industrialization and Urbanization
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Cities Lazy Fairs Yep Cows
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Question 1 - 10

• Laissez-faire relies on what to regulate prices
  and wages?

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Answer 1 10

• Supply and demand

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Question 1 - 20

• During the early days of industrialization, many
  members of Congress believed that tariffs were
  necessary to?

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Answer 1 20

• Protect American industries from foreign
  competition

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Question 1 - 30

• Economies of Scale refers to a companies
  ability to do what?

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Answer 1 30

• Lower costs and increase production

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Question 1 - 40

• A steel company that owns the coal mines,
  limestone quarries, and iron ore fields it
  depends on is an example of?

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Answer 1 40

• Vertical Integration

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Question 1 - 50

• In the late 1800s, confusion about deflation led
  to angry workers because?

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Answer 1 50

• Workers were getting paid less but they didnt
  realize that their money was worth more because
  of lower prices

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Question 2 - 10

• Supporters of pure laissez-faire believed the
  government should interfere in the economy only
  to?

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Answer 2 10

• Protect property rights and maintain peace

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Question 2 - 20

• It made sense for big corporations to continue
  operating during poor economic times because?

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Answer 2 20

• Their operating costs were small, compared to
  their fixed costs

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Question 2 - 30

• When a single company achieves control of an
  entire market, it is known as?

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Answer 2 30

• A Monopoly

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Question 2 - 40

• What was the technique for breaking a union in
  which the company refused to allow workers to
  enter their property?

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Answer 2 40

• Lockouts

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Question 2 - 50

• By the 1800s, more than half of all immigrants
  (the New Immigrants) in the United States were
  from?

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Answer 2 50

• Eastern and Southern Europe

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Question 3 - 10

• Many labor unions opposed immigration, arguing
  that immigrants would?

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Answer 3 10

• Would work for low wages and take jobs

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Question 3 - 20

• William M. Tweed was?

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Answer 3 20

• The party boss of the Tammany Hall political
  machine

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Question 3 - 30

• What was the philosophy that Americans with a
  great deal of money should use it to help people
  who are motivated to improve their lives?

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Answer 3 30

• Gospel of Wealth

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Question 3 - 40

• Nativists wanted to?

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Answer 3 40

• Limit or cut off immigration

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Question 3 - 50

• Subway systems were first developed to?

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Answer 3 50

• Relieve congestion on city streets

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Question 4 - 10

• Political machines provided new city dwellers
  with necessities such as jobs, housing and police
  protection in exchange for?

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Answer 4 10

• Votes

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Question 4 - 20

• Individualism was the belief that?

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Answer 4 20

• People can rise as far as their talents will take
  them and be successful

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Question 4 - 30

• What philosophy stated that society became
  stronger by allowing people and businesses to
  fail, therefore the government/society shouldnt
  help failing businesses or people in poverty?

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Answer 4 30

• Social Darwinism

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Question 4 - 40

• The total value of all goods and services that a
  country produces is its?

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Answer 4 40

• Gross National Product

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Question 4 - 50

• What is the purpose of starting a corporation
  instead of a private business?

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Answer 4 50

• Allows companies to raise large amounts of
  capital while spreading out the financial risk
  among many stock holders.

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Question 5 - 10

• What advantages did big corporations have over
  small businesses?

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Answer 5 10

• They could produce more goods, cheaply and
  efficiently

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Question 5 - 20

• When a union called a strike, employers would
  often hire replacements, called?

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Answer 5 20

• Strikebreakers

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Question 5 - 30

• Employers generally viewed unions as?

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Answer 5 30

• An attempt to interfere with production and
  illegal

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Question 5 - 40

• The Knights of Labor suffered a steady decline in
  membership and influence due to unsuccessful
  strikes and?

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Answer 5 40

• Violence associated with unions

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Question 5 - 50

• John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in what
  industry?

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Answer 5 50

• Oil