Question 1

Who invented the lightbulb?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Answer

Henry Ford

Answer

Albert Einstein

Answer

Steve Jobs

Question 2

combining two or more companies into one

Accepted Answer

merger

Question 3

Result of the Pullman Strike?

Accepted Answer

US Attorney General ordered an injunction

Answer

US Attorney General ended the Railroad Strike

Question 4

By consolidating smaller railroad companies, railroad ______ were created.

Accepted Answer

barons

Question 5

A philanthropist who built more than 2,000 libraries worldwide

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnegie

Answer

John D. Rockefeller

Question 6

court order to stop a labor union from striking

Accepted Answer

injunction

Answer

interjection

Answer

intervention

Answer

interception

Question 7

separate companies combine to form larger companies

Accepted Answer

consolidation

Answer

combination

Answer

conservation

Question 8

a group of companies managed by a single board of trustees

Accepted Answer

trust

Answer

truism

Answer

Trump

Answer

trinity

Question 9

Business method used by Carnegie; he bought companies that made products he needed for his steel production

Accepted Answer

vertical integration

Answer

horizontal integration

Question 10

Business method used by Rockefeller; he bought smaller oil companies

Accepted Answer

horizontal integration

Answer

vertical integration

Question 11

Incentives given to customers in order to draw business to a company

Accepted Answer

rebates

Question 12

rail road work song

Accepted Answer

"John Henry"

Answer

"Jonny Smith"

Answer

"John Boy"

Question 13

a stockholder's share of a company's profits

Accepted Answer

dividend

Question 14

partial owners of a company

Accepted Answer

shareholders

Question 15

unions representing workers in talks with management

Accepted Answer

collective bargaining

Question 16

complete control of an industry

Accepted Answer

monopoly

Question 17

connected the US with Europe for the first time in 1866

Accepted Answer

transatlantic telegraph cable

Answer

transatlantic submarine

Answer

transatlantic railroad

Answer

transatlantic airplane

Question 18

Which industry did NOT experience growth due to the growth of the railroad industry?

Accepted Answer

iron ore

Answer

steel

Answer

lumber

Answer

coal

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