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- What famous cry came from the Stamp Act Congress concerning these new taxes? What famous rallying cry came from James Otis?
- What was the first direct tax applied to the American colonists in 1764? How did it affect the prince of the commodity?
- Which British politician warned: "Young man, there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world"?
- When protest grew in the colonies over the tax of 1764 what was Parliaments reaction?
- Why was the admiralty courts hated by the colonists, which later would be a reason for the passing of the 6th Amendment to the US Constitution?
- When was the first patent for the telephone made
- What is the term used to describe Companies that operated across national boundaries
- What term is used to refer to organizations that advocated for the right to bargain with employers, and put the resulting agreements in a contract
- Who led a naval squad in 1853 to ask to trade with Japan?
- Who are individuals who buy partial ownership directly from thecompany when it is formed or later through a stock market
- What was the name of the British and Dutch venture that focused on household goods (most famously, soap)?
- Where did the first public power station begin production?
- Alfred Krupp of Essen, Germany made a steel monopoly in germany through the use of what
- Sums of money that stockholders receive
- What was the name of the document published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
- Working families crowded into shoddily constructed _________________ Buildings
- What led to the increase of advertisement
- John D. Rockefeller created a monopoly in the ________ industry
- What did the steam engine harness to create steam?
- Control of a specific business, control of all competition