1 a
The Bessemer process was a revolutionary process that helped speed up the process of making steel, making possible for skyscrapers to be built in the quickest time in history. The process was named after Bessemer, who discover the process in England and made it factory-available in the US, becoming one of the most successful man in the steel industry.
2 c
Stocks were used by companies in order to increase corporation profit, as they were a huge amount of actions that were sold at a higher price in comparison to their worth. This leads ultimately to the crisis '29, as the market bubble exploded, leaving many companies with nothing or less. Some corporations however did have huge profit from this type of operations.
3 b
Science management leads to workers being seen as part of the resources that should be managed in a process. This fact dehumanized the workers, as they were seen as interchangeable part, with no rights at all. They were treated as pieces of the process, and so they had to fight for their rights, as numbers of hours working and so on.
4 c
An immigrant neighbourhood was a place where immigrants could find conform to people with similar background and similar culture for sure. They were also places used to preven these people from integrating with the other part of societies, as they often tended to stay in their neighbourhood without seeking a more integrative approach.
5 d
Traffic and the need to move people was a problem that mass transit helped resolve, as the public transports were developed and so it was possible to move a great number of people from one place to another with an organized and scheduling process that helped the management of such an issue in a great way.
6 a
The telephone allowed people to communicate by speech over long distances, with a consequent improvement of a series of sectors, as corporations could improve their performance without having to wait for written replies. it also improved the level of connectivity of the people, that were in contact like never before.
