The Impact of Big Businesses

The Impact of Big Businesses

Multiple Choice

Predict how Henry Ford's assembly line would change American manufacturing.

• It made it possible to produce goods faster.

• It created more jobs for immigrant workers.

• It made labor more expensive.

• It ended pollution in factories.

Match

Match the following vocabulary term with its definition

• Someone who buys or uses goods and services.

• Someone who puts money into a business to make a profit.

• Money earned by a lender when a business does well.

• Someone selling or buying goods in the same market.

• Someone who creates and runs a new business and takes on all the risks of the business.

Consumer

Investor

Profit

Competitor

Entrepreneur

• Consumer

• Investor

• Profit

• Competitor

• Entrepreneur

• Late 1800s: new inventions everywhere

• created jobs in cities

• workers left farms to fill jobs in cities

• led to "urbanization" --> growth of cities

• 1880-1900: # of factories & jobs more than doubled

• increased immigration

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Open Ended

How did new inventions lead to urbanization?

Open Ended

Choose a product or device and explain how life would be different if it were never invented.

• 1870 - John D. Rockefeller starts Standard Oil Company

• 1889 - Andrew Carnegie creates Carnegie Steel Company

• 1901 - J.P. Morgan creates US Steel Corporation

• 1903 - Henry Ford starts Ford Motor Company using an assembly line

• 1904 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company by Harvey Firestone

• 1918 - William Boeing's Airplane Company begin transporting mail for USPS

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Inventions & Businesses

Match

Match the product to which each businessperson is linked

• Tires

• Automobiles usinig Assembly Lines

• Steel

• Airplanes

• Oil Refinery

Harvey Firestone

Henry Ford

Andrew Carnegie

William Boeing

John D. Rockefeller

• Harvey Firestone

• Henry Ford

• Andrew Carnegie

• William Boeing

• John D. Rockefeller

Multiple Choice

How did Henry Ford produce cars faster and more cheaply?

• by linking the car industry to Detroit, Michigan

• by buying smaller companies and monopolizing the industry 

• by using an assembly line in which each worker specialized in a specific task

• through urbanization of the United States

• Cities linked to important industries grew

• Cleveland, OH - oil refineries

• Pittsburgh, PA - steel plants

• Detroit, MI - automobiles

• big cities were connected more by transportation

• raw materials moved in to cities --> finished goods moved out

• Pros: more jobs, better transportation

• Cons: crowding, traffic, pollution, dangerous work environments

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Cities & Businesses

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Multiple Choice

What was a significant cost of the growth of industries?

• Growing industries made different regions of the United States rely on each other.

• Growing industries created pollution.

• Growing industries led to taller buildings.

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  Growing industries led to the growth of cities.