Supporter of the Great Strike in 1877 and organizer of the United Mine Workers of America
Who is Mary Harris Jones
100
Invented the typewriter
Who is Christopher Sholes
100
Three natural resources that supported the industrial boom
What is oil, iron, and coal
100
Built a town in Illinois providing housing, doctors, shops, and an athletic field for his employees; built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars
Who is George M. Pullman
100
Formed the American Railway Union
Who is Eugene V. Debs
200
Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie
200
Invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
200
Name 3 uses of steel during the industrial age
What is Railroads, Farm Machinery, Innovative Construction, Barbed Wire
200
Company that steals railroad money for its shareholders
What is Credit Mobilier
200
Created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company
Who is John D. Rockefeller
300
Railroad-car mogul who built a town to house his employees
Who is George M. Pullman
300
Perfected the incandescent light bulb at his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey and also developed an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power
Who is Thomas Alva Edison
300
What did the growth of urban population provide?
What is cheap labor and markets for new products
300
The Interstate Commerce Act established what?
What is the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities
300
Who organized the Industrial Workers of the World?
Who is Radical Unionists and Socialists
400
Theory that justified the efforts of millionaires and discouraged government interference in big business
What is Social Darwinism
400
Developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel
Who is Henry Bessemer
400
3 main causes for the industrial boom
What is wealth of natural resources, government support for business, and growing urban population
400
Upheld the Granger Laws
Granger Laws - "to establish maximum freight and passenger rates and prohibit discrimination"
What is Munn v. Illinois
400
Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800's?
What is they were workers used to break strikes
500
A market in which one company has complete control over an industry's production, quality, wages paid, and prices charged.
What is a monopoly
500
First successfully used a steam engine to remove oil from beneath the earth's surface
Who is Edwin L. Drake
500
January 10, 1901
What event happened?
Who were the two main players involved?
Where was the event?
What is the:
Spindletop gusher
Pattillo Higgins and Captain Anthony F. Lucas
Beaumont, Texas
500
How many times zones are there? What are the time zones? Who established the time zones?
What is:
4
Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern
Professor C.F. Dowd
500
Where did 146 female workers die in a fire?
What did industrial consolidation and trusts reduce during the late 1800's?
Which of the following did Social Darwinism discourage?
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
What is competition
What is government regulation