Industry and Urban Growth

monopoly

• only one seller of a particular product

• many sellers of a product

• no sellers of a product

• no place to go get something

Who founded Standard Oil Company and was one of the wealthiest men?

• John D. Rockefeller
• Henry Ford
• Thomas Edison
• Andrew Carnegie

Who owned Carnegie Steel Company?

• Andrew Carnegie
• Henry Ford
• John D. Rockefeller
• Thomas Edison

Who was one of the most powerful bankers?

• John Rockefeller

• J.P. Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• Mr. D

Captains of Industry

• Positive-they rose to the top of their business through hard work and good business sense

• A negative term for people who did bad things

• People who worked at banks

• Company executives

What was the negative term given to the industrialists who were often criticized for unfair and unethical business practices?

• Business Innovators
• Robber Barons
• Captains of Industry
• Wealthy Entrepreneurs

What is a factor that makes you want to leave your country and go somewhere else?

• Push Factor

• Pull factor

• Preference for a different climate or environment
• Family or personal reasons

What is a pull factor?

• A push factor

• A pull factor is a factor that only affects a small group of people and not the general population.
• A reason to stay in your country

• A pull factor is a factor that attracts people to move to a particular location or country.

What is assimilation?

• The process of rejecting new information or experiences.
• The process of forgetting existing knowledge or beliefs.
• becoming part of another culture

• The process of avoiding new information or experiences.

What was Ellis Island?

• A famous prison
• A military base
• An immigration station in NYC

• A theme park