Inventions
Laws
Businessmen
Corruption
Muckrakers
100
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
100
Created sanitation guidelines for meat packing facilities
Meat Inspection Act
100
Owner of Standard Oil
John D. Rockafeller
100
Scandal where congressmen received stocks in the RR company in exchange for political influence
Credit Mobilier
100
Female pioneer in Muckraking. Wrote History of Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell
200
Who created the sleeper car?
George Pullman
200
Makes manufacturers list ingredients on the side of their products.
Pure food and drug act
200
Owned the biggest steel business
Andrew Carnegie
200
Scandal involving distillers bribing tax officials
Whiskey Ring
200
Wrote Shame of Cities and helped bring down Boss Tweed
Lincoln Steffens
300
Who created the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
300
Says federal jobs must be based on merit not political loyalty
Pendleton Act
300
Created the new process for steel making
Henry Bessemer
300
A group of people that seeks 2 things: get elected and get rich
Political Machine
300
Wrote The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
400
Who created the first refrigerated railroad car?
Swift and Armour
400
First law to regulate business across state lines
Interstate Commerce Act
400
Built a small town named after himself outside Chicago
George Pullman
400
Leader of the Tamanny Hall political machine
Boss Tweed
400
Political cartoonist that helped take down Boss Tweed
Thomas Nast
500
Who is responsible for the type writer?
Christopher Scholes
500
Designed to prevent the creation of monopolies
Clayton-Anti Trust Act
500
Owned Northern Securities Company
J.P. Morgan
500
Who was president during the Whiskey Ring and Credit Mobilier?
Useless Grant
500
Seeking out and publishing scandalous information about a person or business
Muckraking
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