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
The first major national union, it accepted all workers into its membership regardless of race or gender.
What is the Knights of Labor?
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
The Central Pacific railroad employed immigrant labor mostly from this ethnic group.
What is the Chinese?
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
Besides hiring former Civil War veterans, the Union Pacific railroad employed immigrant labor mainly from this ethnic group.
What is the Irish?
300
Method of cheaply converting iron into steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
300
Leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), his organization excluded unskilled workers and certain ethnic/racial groups from that union.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
300
This method of negotiation is often used by unions instead of strikes to try to gain better working conditions and wages for employees.
What is collective bargaining?
400
Roughly translated from the French, it means "let it be," 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
When he invented the typewriter, he didn't expect that he, along with Alexander Graham Bell, would open the workplace to many more women.
Who is Christopher SHOLES?
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
It was the first major national strike
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
500
He developed a steam engine to drill for oil, ushering in a massive industry that would spread throughout the world.
Who is Edwin DRAKE?
500
Riot that eventually resulted in the complete breakdown of the Knights of Labor union
What is the Haymarket Riot?
500
He led the American Railway Union and started the American Socialist Party.