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Why did President Cleveland call in the army to end the Pullman Palace
Car Strike?
blocking the train tracks stopped mail delivery
Why did Congressman support tariffs in the early days of
industrialization?
to protect U.S. businesses from European competition
vertical alignment
What term refers to a company when it owns all the different businesses in the production
process?
How did cable and street cars improve lives in the U.S.?
They could get better homes farther from their
jobs.
How did light bulbs improve factories and people’s lives?
Factories could stay open 24 hours, & people had
light in their homes.
How did refrigerated railcars improve people’s lives?
Meat was safer since it didn’t spoil when shipped.
Orders increased in businesses, and people
could talk to families far off easier.
How did the telephone improve business and people’s lives?
Greenville Dodge
Who was the leader of the Union Pacific Railroad that linked the nation with the Transcontinental Railroad?
Samuel Gompers
Who was the first leader of the American Federation of Labor who
wanted the union to stay out of politics?
James Hill
Who was the leader of the Great Northern Railroad who was NOT
corrupt and never let it go bankrupt?
having a huge variety of products in a fancy
building
How did department stores change the idea of shopping??
Give 3 results of the flood of ranchers, farmers, and miners to
the Great Plains
1. closing the frontier
2. ended Indian’s way of life
3. added new states
Give 2 reasons early unions failed
1. couldn’t organize effectively
2. sometimes cause violence with strikes
How did Union Pacific investors get rich in the Credit Mobilier scandal?
They overpaid bills to a construction company that they
owned
What two companies had the top mail order catalogues in the late
1800s?
Sears Roebuck & Montgomery Ward
Name 4 difficulties that the farmers faced on the Great Plains in the
late 1800s?
blizzards, wind, fire, grasshoppers, drought,
scorching heat
What is an organization owned by many people but treated but law as
though it were a single person called?
corporation
What were advantages of large businesses over small businesses?
Large businesses could make goods faster and cheaper,
could survive easier in a bad economy, and had lower
operating costs
What is true about the Great Railway Strike of 1877?
• President Hayes ended it by sending in the army
• Involved 11 states
• Unions began organizing more
What were results of the fencing of the open range?
• Long drives ended
• Cowboys became ranch hands
What groups did make up the majority of early cowboys?
African Americans, Hispanics, ex- Confederate soldiers
Does inflation raise or lower the value of money? Does deflation
raise of lower the value of money?
Inflation lowers while deflation rises