4th Six Weeks: Homework 2 (1/12/2016) - Second Industrial Revolution
- Read and outline pages 536 - 546 in the textbook.
- Learn definitions of the following key terms:
liquid capital
mass production Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller vertical integration |
horizontal integration
trust Standard Oil Company Bessemer Process kerosene gospel of wealth Social Darwinism |
plutocracy
Sherman Antitrust Act James Buchanan Duke "Pittsburgh Plus" hillbillies |
3. Answer the following reading questions.
- How did tycoons like Carnegie and Rockefeller build their massive trusts?
- What did Rockefeller's son mean when he compared his father's trust to growing an "American Beauty" rose?
- How was the 14th Amendment used to protect trusts from government regulation?
- How did this second industrial revolution affect life in the South?