Rise of Industry
The Railroads
Big Business
Little Bit of This and That
Lucky Guess
100
His inventions and innovations brought us moving pictures, the phonograph (record player), electricity, and the light bulb.
Who is Thomas EDISON?
100
Term that refers to a railroad line that links the nation from coast to coast.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
Billionaire steel tycoon who opened the largest steel factory the world had ever known in Pittsburgh, PA
Who is Andrew CARNEGIE?
100

This legislation allowed settlers to have 160 acres of land to farm, build a road, and dig a well. 

What is the Homestead Act?

100
Term that refers to the rapid growth of cities
What is urbanization?
200
Method of cheaply converting iron into steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
200
The Central Pacific railroad employed immigrant labor mostly from this ethnic group.
What is the Chinese?
200
A holding company that consolidates an industry into a near monopoly
What is a trust?
200
The act of "walking out" on your job to fight for better working conditions or a pay increase
What is a strike?
200
He invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham BELL?
300
A type of business consolidation that involves buying out the supply chain in order to minimize production costs
What is vertical integration?
300

The United States wanted their land and their culture to create railroads. 

What is the Dawes Act 1887?

300
Method of cheaply converting iron into steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
300

This will cause inflation if it is added into the circulation, but that is okay because the farmers demand it!

What is silver?

300
This method of negotiation is often used by unions instead of strikes to try to gain better working conditions and wages for employees.
What is collective bargaining?
400
Roughly translated from the French, it means "let it be," and is used to describe government policy that does not interfere with business.
What is laissez-faire?
400
He made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. His name can be found on this university, located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Who is Cornelius VANDERBILT?
400
Oil tycoon who made a fortune by creating a formidable trust that controlled over 90% of the oil industry
Who is John D. ROCKEFELLER?
400
Because companies could justify paying them less, they often hired these people instead of men
What are women and children? (one or both answers are okay)
400

This group were determined to have income tax, government regulation of railroads, and direct election of senators

Who are farmers?

500

This invention revolutionize the United States by creating time zones, a national economy, and promoted the growth of cities.

What are RailRoads?

500

 The purpose of the railroad was to do this. 

To connect the east to the west.

500

He invented the steam engine replacing animals and human beings.

Who is Thomas Savery?

500

Morgan. Carnegie. Vanderbilt. Rockefeller were seen as this. 

What are captains of industry or robber barons?

500

Created to eliminate all competition. One person dominates. 

What is a monopoly?

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