Industrialization and Immigration Quiz

The greatest economic consequence of the transcontinental railroad network was that it

• developed a skilled industrial workforce

• united the nation into a single, integrated national market

• enabled people from farms and small towns to visit all the big cities

• enabled farmers to make a highly profitable living by shipping their goods across the country

A monopoly is best defined as

• a business that provides a necessity to the general public

• a market situation where there is only a single provider of a good or service

• a negotiation by workers as a group with business owners over compensation

• an arrangement of similar businesses created to regulate production and control pricing

How did Rockefeller become so successful?

• he eliminated competition by making products cheaply
• he eliminated competition by gaining control of his competitors
• he earned a reputation as an honest businessman
• he controlled the steel industry by developing trusts

Andrew Carnegie controlled every step of the steel making process.  This is called...

• vertical integration
• monopoly
• trust
• robber baron

The buying of all companies related to the production of a company's product, ex. McDonalds

• vertical integration
• mass production
• robber baron
• monopoly

Method of production invented by Henry Ford in which workers add parts to a product as it moves along a belt.

• assembly line
• mass production
• Industry
• monopoly

When a company controls all or nearly all the business of an industry

• trust
• consolidate
• monopoly
• vertical integration

American businessman- founder of Standard Oil Company

• Samuel Gompers
• Thomas Edison
• Vanderbilt
• John D. Rockerfeller

Effects of railroads

• Pollution & Child Labor

• Long distance communication, Morse Code, Samuel Morse

• move people & goods, efficient

• Faster way to make steel, Henry Bessemer

This immigration inspection site was located on the East Coast and opened in 1892.

• Angel Island

• The Statue of Liberty

• Ellis Island

• New York City