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100
He successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Pennsylvania.
What is Edwin Drake
100
Inventor of the typewriter, which change the world of work in the 1800's.
What is Christopher Sholes
100
He along with Thomas Watson invented the telephone which opened the way for a worldwide communications network.
What is Alexander Graham Bell
100
He built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois prairie.
What is George M. Pullman
100
This term referred to members of a farmers organization founded in 1867.
What is Grangers
200
He developed a technique which involved injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon & other impurities.
What is Henry Bessemer
200
This term referred to a corrupt construction company that gave stock holders a contract to lay track at two to three times the actual cost.
What is Credit Mobilier
200
This business tycoon introduced the concepts of vertical and horizontal integration.
What is Andrew Carnegie
200
Standard Oil company was established by this businessman in the 1800's.
What is John D. Rockefeller
200
This law made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act
300
He established the world's first research park in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
What is Thomas Alva Edison
300
This act established the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities and established a five-member ICC.
What is Interstate Commerce Act
300
This philosophy grew out of the English naturalist theory of biological evolution.
What is Social Darwinism
300
He led the Cigar Makers' International Union to join other craft unions in 1886.
What is Samuel Gompers
300
This union was formed in 1869 to support African American Labor workers.
What is The Colored National Labor Union
400
What was the process called in which injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon & other impurities.
What is Bessemer Process
400
This book titled "The Origin of Species" published in 1859 was authored by.
What is Charles Darwin
400
This female visionary organized the United Mine Workers of America.
What is Mary Harris Jones
400
This inventor was credited with inventing the telegraph.
What is Samuel Morse
400
He attempted to form the American Railway Union in 1894.
What is Eugene V. Debs
500
What year was the typewriter invented.
What is 1867
500
In 1905 this group of radical unionists and socialists organized in Chicago.
What is Industrial Workers of the World
500
This industrialists was responsible for Erie Canal.
What is Dewitt Clinton
500
This industrialist was credited with building the first commercially successful single steam engine.
What is Robert Fulton
500
In the legal case, the Supreme Court upheld the law which allowed states the right to regulate the railroads for the benefit of farmers & consumers.
What is Munn v. Illinois
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