People
Terms
Laws and Acts
Misc.
Misc 2
100
Creator of the telephone
What is Alexander Graham Bell
100
Process which made steel making more economical
What is the Bessemer Process
100
Stopped the overcharging of local farmers to ships goods
What is the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
100
Economic system that allows anyone to produce and sell whatever they wish
What is free enterprise system
100
Term meaning government "hands-off" approach to business
What is laissezz-faire
200
Invented the electric lightbulb
What is Thomas Edison
200
A company chartered by the state and recognized in law as a separate "person"
What is a corporation
200
Designed to enforce the Interstate Commerce Act
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission
200
Extra money after all expenses paid
What is profit
200
Term meaning complete control over the supply of a product or service
What is monopoly
300
Philanthropist, who dominated the steel industry
What is Andrew Cargnegie
300
Person who owns a stock
What is a shareholder
300
Law that stops monopolies from unfair practices
What is Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890
300
Describes the lavish lifestyles of people in a time where things looked good on the surface but were not what they appeared
What is the Gilded Age
300
Union created by Terrance Powderly joining all skilled and un-skilled workers into one union
What is Knights of Labor
400
Formed Standard Oil Company
What is John D. Rockefeller
400
A person or small group that starts a business in hope of making aprofit
What is an entreprenuer
400
Demonstrators injured and police killed in Haymarket Square in Chicago
What is Haymarket Affair of 1886
400
Term describing business owners that used ruthless tactics to destroy competition and keep wages low.
What is robber barrons
400
Union created by Samuel Gompers hoping to unite workers with similar economic interests.
What is the American Federation of Labor
500
Founder of the American Federation of Labor
What is Samuel Gompers
500
A person who donates money to invest in opportunity for other, like libraries and universities
What is a philanthropist
500
Construction of this allowed nationwide trade
What is Transcontinental Railrod
500
Process of turning crude oil into a useful product
What is refining
500
Orville and Wilbur Wright
What is the inventors of the airplane
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