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Industry In NC
Chapter 18 Study Guide
Question | Answer |
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What does suffrage mean? | women's voting rights |
The Snow family was associated with what industry? | furniture |
The Battle family was associated with what industry? | textile |
The Holt family was associated with what industry? | textile |
The Reynolds family was associated with what industry? | tobacco |
The Cannon family was associated with what industry? | textile |
The Ramseurs family was associated with what industry? | textile |
The Duke family was associated with what industry? | tobacco |
The Tate family was associated with what industry? | furniture |
The Wrenn family was associated with what industry? | furniture |
What does temperance mean? | abolition of alcohol |
What is the raw material of the furniture industry? | trees |
Name three reforms promoted by women and religious groups. | help for mentally ill, temperance, suffrage |
What enabled the textile, tobacco and furniture industries to expand at this time? | railroads |
The Duke family created the ____________________________ to sell cigarettes around the world. | cigarette rolling machine |
The __________________________________ was established when three men combined their life savings. | High Point Furniture Manufacturing Company |
This city in NC is where the furniture industry started | High Point |
What was the raw material of the tobacco industry? | tobacco |
What was the raw material of the furniture industry? | trees |
What is a monopoly? | When one person owns several companies within a particular industry |
Name one example of how companies controlled peoples lives in NC during this time period. | by providing houses, loaning money |
Name three items supported by new Democratic leaders after 1898. | pensions for civil war veterans and their widows, Direct primaries, public education, created increased funding for orphanages and institutions for the mentally ill |
What does the Sherman Antitrust Act prevent? | monopolies |
populism | belief of political leaders that focuses on the average person |
progressivism | progress is only possible by improving self anf society |
prohibition | to ban the making and selling of alcohol |
tenant farming | system where a farmer rents or provides land and equipment |
sharecropping | system where a farmer rents or provides land |
JP Morgan | monopolized the banking industry |
Rockerfellar | family that monopolized the oil industry |
consolidate | to combine several parts or pieces to make one whole |
Leonidas L. Polk | important NC legislator |
What is the raw material of the textile industry? | cotton |
What is the imaginary shape made by growing industries in the Piedmont region of NC | The Piedmont Crescent |