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Life in the Jungle - American Industrialization

This game will help you review key concepts and terms relating to the New Immigration and the rise of Big Business in late 19th century America.

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What science studies wealth, the production and distribution of goods and services?Economics
What was an economic policy in which colonial raw materials were shipped to the parent country and finished goods were sold to colonists?Mercantilism
Name four developments in Italian Renaissance trade?Rising merchant class, long distance trade, double entry bookkeeping, guilds
What are two components of capitalism?Free market and private ownership of means of production
What was the economic and social system of medieval manors?Feudalism
Where did the Industrial Revolution start and in which business?English textiles
What form of business organization results when companies control the supply of a particular product or control a key part of the manufacturing process?Monopoly
Who first articulated the laws of supply and demand?Adam Smith in his book "Wealth of Nations"
Who were the New Immigrants?Southern and eastern Europeans
What are "birds of passage"?Immigrants who worked a few years in America and then returned to Europe to live.
What new style of building made it possible for so many immigrants to crowd into big cities?Tenements
Who invented the telephone?Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented the light bulb, moving picture and phonograph?Thomas Edison
Who invented the telegraph?Samuel F.B. Morse
What business monopoly was controlled by Andrew Carnegie?U.S. Steel
What business monopoly was controlled by John D. Rockefellar?Standard Oil
What business monopoly is associated with J. P. Morgan?Finance
What new style of architecture made it possible for big companies to locate all their offices in one building?Skyscrapers
List two ways that baseball reflected the Age of Expansion?Industrial growth and racial attitudes
Who were the Gum Shan Hok?Chinese railroad workers
Who invented a mechanical reaper that made grain harvesting efficient and profitable on large farms on the Great Plains?Cyrus McCormick
Whose sewing machine helped housewives but also spawned garment industry sweatshops?Isaac Singer
Whose customized railroad sleeping cars made train travel popular and comfortable?George Pullman

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