Inventions
Big Business
Workers Organize
Railroads
Business Cycle
100
He invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
100
Leader of the Steel Industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie
100
Places where workers worked long hours, for little pay in unsafe conditions
What is a sweatshop
100
Where the two railroad lines met
What is Promontory, Utah
100
When the economy is good
What is a boom
200
This invention made people stop making their own clothes and buy them instead
What is the sewing machine
200
Leader of the Oil Industry
Who was John D. Rockefeller
200
A national labor that allowed women and African-Americans join
What is The Knights of Labor
200
The railroad company that started building in Sacramento, California
What is The Central Pacific
200
When the economy is bad
What is a bust
300
A technique that made steel prodution cheaper by using less coal
What is the Bessemer Steel Process
300
A company that has sole control of an industry
What is a monopoly
300
A group of people who join together to negotiate better working conditions
What is a labor union
300
The railroad company that began building in Nebraska
What is the Union Pacific Railroad
300
When people buy and invest less money
What is a bust
400
The man who found the most uses for electricity and created the first steady, safe lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison
400
A business owned by many people who hold stock in the company
What is a corporation
400
A national organization of Unions that Samuel Gompers helped create
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
400
10,000 workers came from this country to build the railroads
What is China
400
To buy part of a company with the hopes of future profits
What is an investment
500
A document giving inventors the sole right to make and sell their product or idea
What is a patent
500
A business person who makes their wealth through dishonest ways
What is a robber baron
500
A conflict in Chicago where hundreds of union workers were arrested and a bomb killed seven people
What is the Haymarket Affair
500
A system that divided the country into 4 times zones
What is standard time
500
When people invest in companies and there are many jobs
What is a boom
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