Rise of Industry
The Railroads
Big Business
Unions
Lucky Guess
100
His inventions and innovations brought us moving pictures, the phonograph (record player), electricity, and the light bulb.
Who is Thomas EDISON?
100
Term that refers to a railroad line that links the nation from coast to coast.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
Billionaire steel tycoon who opened the largest steel factory the world had ever known in Pittsburgh, PA
Who is Andrew CARNEGIE?
100

This could be created to advocate for workers rights if successful

What is a labor union

100
Term that refers to the rapid growth of cities
What is urbanization?
200
Method of cheaply converting iron into steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
200

These items/ things would be transported across the U.S. 

Raw materials and people

200
A holding company that consolidates an industry into a near monopoly
What is a trust?
200
The act of "walking out" on your job to fight for better working conditions or a pay increase
What is a strike?
200
He invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham BELL?
300
A type of business consolidation that involves buying out the supply chain in order to minimize production costs
What is vertical integration?
300

This invention helped to move trains across the U.S.

Steam Engine

300
Method of cheaply converting iron into steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
300

This invention allowed robber barons to make their employees work into the evening

Light Bulb

300

This invention helped to create more living/working spaces in cities

What are skyscrapers

400

Roughly translated from the French, it means "let it be," or "hands off," and is used to describe government policy that does not interfere with business.

What is laissez-faire?

400
He made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. His name can be found on this university, located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Who is Cornelius VANDERBILT?
400
Oil tycoon who made a fortune by creating a formidable trust that controlled over 90% of the oil industry
Who is John D. ROCKEFELLER?
400
Because companies could justify paying them less, they often hired these people instead of men
What are women and children? (one or both answers are okay)
400

This invention helped to move vertically in buildings

What are elevators

500
The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
What is Social Darwinism?
500

This would be required for trains to move faster 

Heat

500

Robber baron who controlled a vast majority of the banking industry during the Gilded Age

J.P. Morgan

500

When one business controls the majority of the market

Monopoly

500

This invention allowed people to talk to each other across vast distances. 

What is the telephone

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