Saturday, March 10, 2012

Chap. 19 Questions

What improvements in railway transportation were brought about by new technology?
Air Brakes
Refrigerated Cars
Janney Car Couplers
Pullman Sleeping Car
Electromagnetic Brakes


What were four of Thomas Edison's inventions?
Electric Lightbulb
Phonograph
Motion Picture Projector
Telephone Transmitter
Storage Battery

What inventions improved communications in the late 1800s?
Telegraph
Telephone


What manufacturing methods did Henry Ford use to make his new automobile affordable?
The assembly line


What is vertical integration?
Acquiring companies that provided the equipment and services needed

What action did Congress take to control trusts and monopolies in response to pressure from the American people?
Sherman Antitrust Act poop

What is collective bargaining?
Unions represent workers poop in bargaining with management

How did the Haymarket Riot of 1886 affect public opinion about the labor movement?
Many people associated the labor movement with terrorism and disorder

Describe the contributions of African American inventors in the late 1800s.
Lewis Howard Latimer developed an improved filament for the light bulb.
Granville Woods patented the electric incubator, electromagnetic brake, and an automatic circuit breaker.
Elijah McCoy invented a mechanism for oiling machinery
Jan E. Matzeliger developed a shoe-making machine

How did horizontal integration differ from vertical integration?
Horizontal combines competing firms into one corporation.
Vertical acquired companies that provided the needed equipment and services.

Why did the workers think that forming organized labor unions would help them get what they wanted from employers?
Help!
Strength in numbers?

When you have a Union, you have multiple voices.

Describe two ways in which the growing railroad network helped American industry.
Industrial westward expansion (such as the flour mill)
People (such as farmers) moving west (trains made it easier for people to move from rural areas to the cities)


USE THE MAP ON PAGE 577

What forms of transportation moved goods into and out of this region?
Trains
Ships

What industry grew in the timbered regions of Wisconsin and Michigan?
Sawmills

Identify the major iron/steel manufacturing centers shown on the map.
South Bend
Detroit
Cleveland
Youngstown
Buffalo
Pittsburgh


USE MAP ON PAGE 560.

If you traveled from Florida to California, what time zones would you cross?
Eastern
Central
Mountain
Pacific

If it is 6 AM in Maine, what time is it in Hawaii?
1 AM

If it is 3 PM in Texas, what time is it in Alaska?
12 PM

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