Inventors
Creator of the first modern airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
A company that dominates production and income in an industry.
What is a monopoly?
Founder of Standard Oil and eventual owner of 90% of all oil production in the United States.
The name given to the large, expansive railway system as a result of the Pacific Railway Act.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This is one of the major railroad companies credited with the expansion of the railroad system.
What is Union Pacific or Central Pacific?
What is the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
Alfred Nobel created this explosive new invention.
What is dynamite?
This is the economic idea that as production increases, overall cost goes down.
What is Economies of Scale?
Not only known for his domination of the steel industry, this person also became renowned for his philanthropy.
Who bought out Andrew Carnegie and formed the most lucrative business in American history?
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This union, led by Terence Powderly, allowed African Americans and women into the union.
Who are The Knights of Labor?
This riot was spurred when police fired into a crowd of strikers, killing 4, and led to 170 being injured.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
George Eastman created this device, revolutionizing how we would view and document life.
What is the camera?
A common monopolistic practice of buying out all competitors in order to dominate an industry.
What is horizontal integration?
Leader of the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
An agreement made between two companies with an effort to fix prices.
This company became the first billion dollar company in the United States.
What is the United States Steel Company?
This strike ended with Eugene Debs' arrest and the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the businesses.
What is The Pullman Strike?
The precursor to the modern keyboard, the typewriter was invented by this man.
Who is Christopher Soles?
This French term is used to describe the idea that government should stay out of business affairs.
What is Laissez Faire?
One of the most infamous robber barons of the Gilded Age, often swindled his way to fortunes.
Who is Jay Gould?
A large big business owned by many shareholders, they are treated legally as one entity.
What is a corporation?
This company grew through vertical integration and dominated the steel industry.
What is Carnegie Steel?
This strike ended with Carnegie Steel cutting wages and firing workers.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This invention revolutionized advertisement by allowing companies to display bright ads on buildings.
What is the neon sign?
This phrase roughly translates to the total market value of all good and services produced by a country.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
This Supreme Court Justice was caught insider trading with big businesses at a discounted stock price.
Who is Oakes Ames?
These allowed the United States to save money by not having to trade as often with other countries to obtain them.
What are natural resources?
This union, led by Samuel Gompers, was more selective than others about who they allowed into their ranks.
What is The American Federation of Labor?
This act gave businesses the permission to spread the railway system across the newly expanded western United States.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
Inventor of the first zipper, originally created to help children easily dress themselves.
Who is Whitcomb Judson?
What is the nickname given to businessmen in the Gilded Age that used shady business practices to gain power?
What is a robber baron?
This woman was coined "the most dangerous woman alive" for her ability to galvanize and organize labor unions.
Who is Mary Harris Jones?
The nickname given to this time period.
What is The Gilded Age or Industrial Revolution?
Eugene Debs headed this union which was at the heart of the Pullman Strike.
What is the American Railroad Union?
These strikes took place in Baltimore and Ohio, resulting in the deaths of at least 100 people.
What are the Railroad Strikes of 1877?