BYRD BLESSINGS
PRIME PEOPLE
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EPIC EVENTS
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100

Sole Proprietorship

John D Rockefeller

What is: a one-owner business

founder of the Standard Oil Company

100

James Garfield

James J. Hill

  Who is: elected in 1880 who was fatally wounded by an assassin.

The man who built a railroad empire called the Great Northern Railroad

100

Built in the late 1800's

What is: transcontinental railroad lines built across the American West

100

Central Pacific Railroad

What is: built eastward across the Sierra Nevada range

100

Sherman Antitrust Act

What is: legislation Congress passed in 1890 to stop the formation of trusts

200

First trust

What is: Formed in the oil industry; formed by John D. Rockefeller

200

Samuel Gompers

Alexander Graham Bell

Who is: organized the American Federation of Labor

inventor of the telephone

200

Injunction

What is: used to stop a strike

200

Holding Company

What is: business that buys stock to control businesses in an industry and makes decisions in the interest of the entire group

200

Union Pacific Railroad

What is: built in the late 1860's by Irish workers and war veterans

300

Potato blight

Thomas Edison

What is: a condition that caused many immigrants to come from Ireland in the 1840's

creator of the incandescent light and many other inventions

300

Ellis Island

Civil Service

What is: Way many Immigrants entered the United States

commission established to oversee the hiring of government workers

300

American ingenuity

What is: brought about large numbers of patented inventions in the late 1800's

300

Collective Bargaining

What is: a right labor unions were eager to acquire

300

American Federation of Labor

What is: a group of local unions composed of skilled laborers

400

China

What is: The Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed because of the large amount of immigrants

400

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Andrew Carnegie

Who is: created a railroad empire from New York City to the Great Lakes. owner of a steamship line

scottish immigrant who built a railroad empire

400

Trust

Federation of Labor

What is: a supersized corporation of combined businesses

second major labor union in America


400

Central Pacific

George Westinghouse

What is: first transcontinental railroad linking with the Union Pacific line

inventor of the air brake for trains

400

Social Darwinists

What is: believed that driving weak competitors out of business was part of the struggle for survival

500

philanthropist

What is: wealthy person wo generously donates money to a worthy cause

500

Knights of Labor

Grover Cleveland

What is: an older union open to all workers

the only president to be elected to serve in non-consecutive terms

500

Great Northern Railroad

Chinese Exclusion Act

What is: a transcontinental line built in the northern United States and Canada

prohibited most workers from that country from entering the U.S.

500

Interstate Commerce Act

What is:  direct railroads to set "reasonable rates"

              prevent charging more for short runs than long runs

               form the Interstate Commerce Commission

500

 Capitalism

What is:  

              people are free to invest in businesses and make profits

               private citizens are allowed to go into business

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