IMPROVED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

capitalist

A person who uses money and property in carrying on business

Most of the early labor unions were limited to unskilled workers.

False

What is significant of the expression, "What hath God wrought?"

It was the first message transmitted over the telegraph.

Labor organization was slow because it was regarded as being unpatriotic.

True

Which of the following statements is true of the life of the industrial worker?

Women received half the salary of a man.

In the first half of the 1800s, people who used money and property in establishing a business were called:

capitalists

What is most characteristic of Samuel Morse?

inventor of the telegraph

What best defines capital?

money or goods invested in industry or business

How was written communication improved in the late 1800s?

through the reduced costs of mailing a letter

A large part of the factory labor supply was made up of:

women and children