Resources, Immigration, Population
What was the most common place for immigrants to migrate from in the 1800s?
What is Northwestern Europe?
The first transcontinental railroad was completed when the last spike was driven in the line at
Promontory Point, Utah
Who invented the telephone?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
What is a business owned by one person called?
What is sole proprietorship?
What 1887 law regulated the railroad industry?
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Many immigrants entered the United States by way of
What is Ellis Island? (Double Jeopardy)
Cornelius Vanderbilt was known for...
What is consolidating railroads?
Who invented the light bulb?
Who is Thomas Edison?
What is a business owned by two or more people called?
What is a partnership?
What act of Congress in 1890 was designed to regulate business combinations and trusts?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
What people group sought refuge in America from due to a potato blight
Who are the Irish?
Who built a railroad empire connecting New York City to the Great Lakes?
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
What invention by George Westinghouse improved railroad safety?
What is the air brake?
Who built a huge steel empire in the late 1800s?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What was the first major labor union?
What is the Knights of Labor?
The Exclusion Act of 1882 tried to stop the tide of what immigrant group
Who are the Chinese?
What two railroad companies built the transcontinental railroad?
Who is the Union and Central Pacific? (Double Jeopardy)
Name an inventor and their invention from this time period.
Who is...
Alexander Graham Bell, Edison, Westinghouse...
Who formed the first trust?
Who is John D. Rockefeller? (Double Jeopardy)
Who founded the American Federation of Labor?
Who is Samuel Gompers?
The Chinese specifically contributed to the building of what railroad
What is Central Pacific? (Double
Who built the Great North Railroad without government funding?
Name an inventor and their invention from this time period.
Who is...
Bell, Edison, Westinghouse?
What term means an economic system in which people are free to invest in businesses and make profits?
What is capitalism?
What term means putting a higher value on money and possessions over God?
What is materialism?