President Lincoln signed this Act to start the railroad boom in 1862.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
100
When union workers strike, employers hire replacements called this.
What is strikebreakers?
100
Alexander Graham Bell created this in 1876 which allowed people to hear sound via an electrical current.
What is the telephone?
100
The total value of goods and services that a country produces.
What is gross national product?
100
In 1859 he drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania.
Who is Edwin Drake?
200
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad companies started in these cities.
What is Omaha, Nebraska and Sacramento, California?
200
A technique for breaking a union where the company refused to allow workers on their property.
What is a lockout?
200
Thomas Edison perfected this invention in 1879.
What is the lightbulb?
200
Agreement between companies to keep prices for a product at the same level.
What is pool?
200
These two men flew the first airplane.
Who is Wilber and Orville Wright?
300
The last spike of the Transcontinental Railroad was driven in by the company owners at this city.
What is Promontory Summit, Utah?
300
The Knights of Labor suffered a steady decline in membership and influence due to lost strikes and this riot.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
300
George Eastman develops the first camera in 1888 with this brand name.
What is kodak?
300
Labor supporters who believed that society did not need any government.
What is anarchist?
300
He was the founder of a steel company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
The American Railway Association created these to make rail service safer and more reliable.
What is time zones?
400
Workers from Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin boycotted the Carnegie steel mill after management threatened to cut wages by 20% in this riot.
What is the Homestead Strike?
400
This invention changed bobbins without stopping.
What is automated looms?
400
Owning the supply companies for the larger business.
What is vertical integration?
400
Operated 90% of the oil refineries creating the largest oil refinery in the U.S. called Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
The invention of these enabled railroads to put longer and heavier trains on the railroad lines.
What is airbrakes?
500
In 1893 the American Railway Union rose up against the car company they were working for in Chicago in this strike.
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
Charles and Frank Duryea invented this gasoline powered machine in 1893.
What is the automobile?
500
The term meaning the government should only interfere in the economy to protect property rights and maintain peace.
What is Laissez-Faire?
500
He began the first rail service between New York and Chicago.