The Rise of Industry
Railroads
Big Businesses
Unions
Famous People
100
The total value of all goods and services produced by a country.
What is the gross national product
100
This act provided the contruction of a transcontinentalrailroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act
100
These dominated the economy.
What is Big Businesses
100
A rise in the value of money.
What is deflation
100
The first leader of the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers
200
People who risk their capital in organizing and running a business.
What are entrepreneurs
200
These encouraged railroad construction.
What are land grants
200
The people who own the corporation.
What are Stockholders
200
These ideas of a single man became influential in Europe. He thought that capitalism rested on the struggle between workers and owners.
What is Marxism
200
This man built the largest steamboat fleet in America.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbuilt
300
This tariff reversed many years of declining tariffs.
What is the Morrill Tariff
300
This association was the first to divide the country into time zones.
What is the American Railway Association
300
Combining many firms that deal with the same type of business into one large corporation.
What is horizontal integration
300
The father of modern electricity.
Who is Thomas Edison
400
All of this new technology affected alot, including this kind of industry.
What is the textile industry
400
This company owns all of the different businesses that it depends on.
What is vertical integration
400
The first national association dedicated to promoting women's labor issues.
What is the Women's Trade Union League
400
This man thought of the idea of a phone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
500
Edison's plan for electricity was developed through his use of this kind of current.
What is direct current
500
Jay Gould practiced this, to manipulate stock prices to his benefit.
What is insider trading
500
Many companies used the New Jersey law to create this new orginization.
What is holding company
500
The second main goal of the AFL. (Companies could only hire union workers.)
What are closed shops
500
*Bonus* This man was Edison's main competitor with his design of alternating current.
Who is Nikola Tesla
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