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Inventor of the light bulb

Thomas Edison

100
Who made up the majority of railroad laborers?

Chinese immigrants

100

What is a monopoly?

Company controls entire industry

100

Oldest soft drink in the U.S.

Dr. Pepper

100

Name three poor working conditions

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200

Inventor of the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

200

Which industries were affected by the railroad industry?

ALL of them.

200

Horizontal or Vertical Integration: Disney acquires Marvel and Fox.

Horizontal

200

Highest grossing Christmas movie of all time.

The Grinch

200

What is a union?

A group of workers that come together to make decisions about the conditions of their work.

300

The process in which to make steel faster/cheaper.

Bessemer Process

300

Who were the Grangers and what did they do?

Farmers who went after the railroad industry.

300

Horizontal or Vertical Integration: Carnegie owns coal fields, iron mines, railroads

Vertical integration

300

Year that Pluto was demoted to a "dwarf planet."

2006

300

Reason why the ARU had a target on their back.

Other industries rely on railroads, politicians don't want the economy to suffer.

400

Three things steel was used for.

Railroads, barbed wire, bridges, skyscrapers, etc.

400

Munn v. Illinois did what?

Granger laws were constitutional

400

How did Rockefeller gain control of most of the oil industry?

Predatory pricing

400

Performed at the 1993 superbowl

Michael Jackson

400

Yellow Dog Contracts

Contracts employers would force employees to sign promising they wouldn't join a union.

500

Three reasons why the United States was able to industrialize.

Natural resources, urbanization, government support
500

Interstate Commerce Act did what?

Railroads subject to federal regulation

500

Name an industrialist and corresponding industry: One reason they would be considered a captain of industry and one reason they would be considered a robber Baron.

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500

Lyrics to what Disney movie: From zero to hero in no time flat. Zero to hero just like that.

Hercules 

500

Three reasons why public support for unions declined.

Labor leaders were mostly immigrants.

Labor leaders seen as politically extreme.

Association with violence.

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