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100

This man developed the telephone.

Who is Alexander Graham Bell

100

What was the process that injected air into molten iron to make steel?

Occidation

100

What was the name of the railroad crossing the nation and who built it.

Transactional Railroads

100

What was the event that took place at a Carnegie mill where they called in scabs and the Pinkertons?

Homestead Strike

100

Name 2 uses for the new stronger steel?

To build buildings, and to make stronger boats

200

This man invented the light bulb.

Who is Thomas Edison

200

Who made his fortune off the steel industry in the Pittsburgh area?

Carnegie

200

What is the name of the group that joins together to fight the railroads?

Credit Mobilier

200

Why did people strike at the Pullman railcar company?

Wages because wages went down but house prices stayed the same

200

Name the 2 main industries that grew in the south?

Reno, Cheynee

300

Who invented the typewriter. 

Who is Christopher Sholes

300

Who owned Standard Oil and what was his nickname.

J.D. Rockefeller 

300

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that upheld trade regulation?

The federal courts

300

What happened in the Haymarket affair?

People protest against police and one guy through a bomb into a crowd and policed opened fired

300

What allowed factories to be farther away from power sources and encouraged growth in more remote areas?

The location they were and the people that worked for them

400

Who was the women that help unions organize against coal mines and child labor?

Who is Mother Jones

400

What is the process where you buy out your suppliers till you control beginning to end?

Monopolies

400

What was the name of the company made by Union Pacific stockholders to make even more money?

Union Pacific

400

Who started the American Railway Union, which was for skilled and unskilled labors?

Eugene V. Debs

400

This group was put together to regulate trade between states.

The Commerce

500

Who was the was the first man to use a steam engine to drill for oil.

Who is Edwin E. Drake
500

What made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries?

Sherman Antitrust Act

500

 Who came up with the 24 time zones we use today so that the trains would run on a schedule.

C.F. Dauld

500

A fire at this factory caused people to look at working conditions of women?

The triangle shirtwaist factory

500

Name the 2 major cities that grew in the Midwest because of the railroad and what did they major in.

The Iron Horse they made railroads across the Mississippi river, and the Cheynee they made railroads to there

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