U.s./big Business, Westward Expansion For Test

Front 1

Who invented the electric light bulb?

Back 1

Thomas Edison

Front 2

The Bessemer process was important because it was a way to make what?

Back 2

steel from iron

Front 3

Why were assembly lines used in factories?
Who developed the assembly line?

Back 3

For mass production, which is the manufacturing of many products in a short time;
Henry Ford

Front 4

Who made $$$millions by controlling (having a monopoly) on oil?

Back 4

Rockefeller

Front 5

MONOPOLIES:
What is a monopoly?

Back 5

A business that has complete control over a product or service.
(Examples: You own the only one refrigerator store; or you're the only doctor in town.)

Front 6

MONOPOLIES:
If you have a monopoly, that means you have no ____________.
As a business owner, why would you want to have a monopoly?

Back 6

competition;
Without competition, you could charge high prices and make a lot of money because people have no place else to shop.

Front 7

LABOR:
Workers were poorly paid and had bad working conditions. So, what organizations did workers form to help get more pay and better conditions?

Back 7

labor unions

Front 8

LABOR:
When workers protested, there was often violence. What was one of these protests?

Back 8

the Haymarket Riot

Front 9

IMMIGRATION:
Why did business owners wants immigrants to come to the U.S.?

Back 9

The immigrants went to work at unskilled jobs in factories.

Front 10

IMMIGRATION:
What do you call a person who did not like immigrants and treated them unfairly?

Back 10

a nativist

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WESTWARD EXPANSION:
What was the main reason settlers moved West?

Back 11

to get land

Front 12

WESTWARD EXPANSION:
What was the Homestead Act?

Back 12

a law that gave free land to settlers

Front 13

NATIVE AMERICANS:
What were many Native Americans forced to do as the settlers moved west?

Back 13

The Native Americans were forced to live on ares of land called reservations.

Front 14

NATIVE AMERICANS:
White settlers and Native Americans often fought because they had different ideas about what?

Back 14

Ownership of land: white people thought land could be owned by individual people; Native Americans thought that land belonged to everyone.

Front 15

WAR:
In one famous battle, Native Americans defeated a famous US Cavalry General and killed all his soldiers. What are the TWO names for this battle?

Back 15

Battle of the Little Bighorn, and Custer's Last Stand

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WAR:
Name a battle in which US Cavalry soldiers massacred Native American men, women, and children.

Back 16

Battle of Wounded Knee