Inventions
Inventors
Vocabulary
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What invention was made by George M. Pullman
railroad sleeping car
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Who invented the lighbulb called Wizard of Menlo Park?
Thomas Edison
100
each worker preforms the same task again and again
Assembly Line
100
Led the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
100
Define sweatshop
unsafe garment workers factories
200
Invented by George Westinghouse
airbrakes for trains
200
The Model - T car and assembly line were developed by...
Henry Ford
200
Secret discounts offered by railroad companies
Rebates
200
Antilabor feelings grew after the bloody clash in Chicago called....
Haymarket Riot
200
The use of money to benifit the community is called what?
Philanthropy
300
This invention was made by Alexander Graham Bell
The telephone
300
Formed the Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
300
investors that own part of a company
Shareholder
300
Who ordered an injunction to stop the Pullman Strike?
Attorey General Richard Olney
300
What are the 3 factors of production?
land, labor, and capital
400
George Eastman invented this
small camera
400
Steel Company Owner and Philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie
400
total control of an industry
Monopoly
400
steelworkers union dwindled after this strike failed
Homestead Strike
400
well known railroad baron
Cornelius Vanderbilt
500
What did Lewis Latimer develope?
improved lightbulb filament
500
Spent 50 years fighting for workers' rights
Mary Harris Jones
500
large company owned by investors call Shareholders
Corporation
500
Group of national trade unions formed in 1881. Name the labor group
American Federation of Labor
500
Who developed railroad refrigerated cars
Gustavus Swift
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