quizz

approx how many african americans were lynched between 1884 and 1900

1,700

who helped thomas a. Edison merge with competing companies to form general electric in 1892

J.p. morgan

who was the founder of the standard oil company

John D. Rockefeller

in determining how to make factory employees more productive efficiency experts were inspired by the workings of

Large-scale industrial machinery

who founded the american telelphome and telegraph comp

alex graham

the development of trusts destroyed

competition

which amendment to the u.s. constitution was the basis of the supreme courts ruling that in legal terms

fourteenth amendment

what did most southern newspaper esitors and buisness leaders consider the key to transforming the former confederacy into a new south

industrial expansion

the rise of black run schools unintended consequence if

jim crow laws

The passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act reflected Congress's desire to

limit, but not eliminate, the ability of big business to dominate the economy

farmers and other rural residents were able to participate in the new economy of the late 19th century thanks to

mail order catalogs like montgomerys ward

which southern state became the home of the cigarette industry

north carolina

what caused the gross domestic product of the United States to quadruple between 1860 and 1890

the rapid growth of industrial manufacturing

a national market for raw materials and finished goods could not have developed without

the standardization of railroads

Control of the entire process that transformed raw materials into manufactured goods is called

vertical integration