This invention extended the workday for factory employees.
What is the lightbulb
100
This is the number of days in a typical workweek for factory employees.
What is six days
100
This is the location of where the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.
What is Promontory Point, Utah
100
This method uses a blast of hot air to purify steel. It also reduces the amount of time needed to make one rail of steel from two weeks to 15 minutes.
What is the Bessemer Process
200
This legislation was the first to try to combat monopolies in America.
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act
200
This invention led to more women being hired to work in offices.
What is the typewriter
200
He led the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers
200
These two companies completed the transcontinental railroad.
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What is the Union Pacific & Central Pacific Railroad.
200
This theory/idea was used to justify the gap between rich and poor in the late 1800s.
What is Social Darwinism
300
He thought of the Gospel of Wealth
Who is Andrew Carnegie
300
They invented the airplane
Who are Orville & Wilbur Wright
300
Name THREE different tactics that employers used when trying to keep costs low (and avoid paying workers more, etc.)
What is (any three): yellow dog contracts, blacklists, lockouts, scabs and injunctions
300
This was the largest immigrant group that worked on the Central Pacific railroad
What is the Chinese
300
Define entrepreneur
What is: someone who takes a risk with their money and talents in order to try and get a profit.
400
He made his monopoly by creating a standardized brake for trains
Who is George Westinghouse
400
Thaddeus Lowe invented this...it allowed meat to be processed in Texas and then shipped east instead of having to be sent in live form.
What is the refrigerated railway car
400
This event did more to hurt the reputation of labor unions than just about anything else.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot
400
This man made millions consolidating railroads. (He also ordered the construction of Grand Central Station).
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt
400
This is what it is called when someone purchases companies that complete different steps in producing a product.
What is vertical integration
500
This man was considered a horrible robber baron. He was even successful in cheating Vanderbilt in a stock watering scam.
Who is Jay Gould
500
This was the decade that the first practical motorcar was built in America.
What is the 1890s (Really it was in 1893 and it was created by Charles & Frank Duryea).
500
This is the difference between a craft union and a trade union.
What is a craft union only allows skilled workers (within a particular craft) whereas a trade union lets in less skilled workers.
500
President Cleveland got involved in this dispute between employees and their employers when the company laid off 1/3 of it's workers and cut salaries, but did not reduce rent.
What is the Pullman Strike. (Cleveland said it was disrupting the mail and ordered the strikers to stop...but most refused so troops were called in).
500
These were the first TWO mail order catalogs (if you get one right you don't lose points, but you can't get 500 points unless you list them both).
What is (1) Sears & Roebuck Catalog (2) Montgomery Ward catalog