Mid-Term Short Essay Exam Review

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Across
  1. 3. The process of making steel that was used by Carnegie on a massive scale to create cheap and abundant steel was the ______________________ Process.
  2. 5. A ______________ factor causes you to leave a place (disease, war, poverty etc.)
  3. 6. Inventions were often interconnected, such as the Railroad and the ______________________
  4. 9. A ______________ factor is something that draws you to a new place (job, land, freedom etc.)
  5. 10. Andrew Carnegie realized Industrialists had an image problem because of their extreme wealth so he decided to use ____________________________ to create institutions like libraries and schools to help improve the lives of ordinary citizens
  6. 11. ____________________ is the economic system of the Unites States and is based on trade, manufacturing and business.
  7. 12. The Industrial Era brought great advances in agriculture and productivity due the rise of ______________________ farming with fertilizers, new machines and better methods.
  8. 13. One of the biggest problems faced by farmers was the abusive practice of price ___________________ by railroads
  9. 14. One of the major factors that led to the 2nd Industrial Revolution was the ______________________ Expansion of the United States
  10. 15. The business owner or Robber Barron that controlled the Oil and Kerosene market through monopoly was J.D. ________________________
  11. 17. The US government helped American industries grow by placing large ___________________ on foreign goods to protect American manufacturers from foreign competition.
  12. 18. During the Industrial Era the US economy exploded by 400% in _________________ years
  13. 19. When a business dominates a field or industry with no competition to lower prices or incentive to improve their products is known as a _________________________
  14. 21. The Industrial Era allowed America to become a world ___________________________ power
Down
  1. 1. Due to many of the abusive practices of industry the government eventually stepped in to ___________________ industries over issues like safety, workers rights, monopolies and corruption
  2. 2. JP Morgan built is business empire around ________________ and banking
  3. 3. Robber _____________ were the Industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller who the public saw as obscenely wealthy and used their power to enrich themselves at public expense
  4. 4. Cornelius ____________________ was the business owner/Robber Baron that controlled many of the nation's railroads
  5. 7. Many farmer financed too much land and new equipment leading many to declare ____________________ and the loss of their farms
  6. 8. The process of the population moving from farms and rural areas to the cities is known as _____________________________
  7. 9. One of the major downsides of the Industrial Era for farmers was their loss of ____________________ power.
  8. 10. The ___________________ Party was created as a political movement to argue for and protect the interests of farmers and those who lived in rural areas
  9. 16. The ability for people to propose laws and pass them via a popular vote, bypassing the state legislature, is known as the power of __________________________
  10. 20. The ability of the people to _______________ corrupt politicians and remove them from office