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Introduced the Model T & Assembly Line
Henry Ford
100
railroad barons were created because the industry did this
consolidated
100
Cornelius Vanderbilt was this
Railroad Baron
100
in 1881 a group of trade unions formed this
American Federation of Labor
100
invented the electric lightbulb
Thomas Edison
200
Responsible for laying a telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean
Cyrus Field
200
the combining of companies
mergers
200
invented a small camera
George Eastman
200
The United States Attorney General Richard Olney ordered an injunction to stop this
Pullman Strike
200
invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
300
invented a shoemaking machine
Jan E. Matzeliger
300
what led to the creation of a multimillion-dollar petroleum industry?
Edwin L. Drake's well
300
Mary Harris Jones was
labor union leader
300
The steelworkers' union dwindled after the failure of this
Homestead Strike
300
formed the standard oil company of ohio
John D. Rockefeller
400
Built transformers
George Westinghouse
400
whose electric power plant lit up 85 buildings in New York City
Thomas Edison
400
Grantville Woods patented _______ inventions
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400
Antilabor feelin grew after the bloody clash in CHicago called this
Haymarket Riot
400
developed railroad refrigerator cars
Gustavus Swift
500
developed an improved lightbulb filament
Lewis Howard Latimer
500
who was the steel company owner who was a great philantropist
Andrew Carnigie
500
philanthropist who built more than 2,000 libraries worldwide
Andrew Carnegie
500
Child-labor laws did not apply to what industry, which also employed 1 million children?
agriculture
500
Pullman strike leader
Eugene V. Debs
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