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100
He invented a faster and cheaper way to make steel
Who is Henry Bessemer?
100
Business without government interference
What is free enterprise?
100
Immigrants that came to the US before 1880's
Who are old immigrants?
100
Only gold could back US currency
What is gold standard?
200
An exclusive right to sell or make an invention
What is a patent?
200
People who start a new business
What is an entrepreneur?
200
Immigrants that came to the US during the 1880's
Who are new immigrants?
200
Created to ensure that railroads charged fair rates and did not favor big shippers
What is the (ICC) Interstate Commerce Commission?
200
"Survival of the fittest"
What is Social Darwinism?
300
He invented (designed) the sleeping cars for trains
Who is George Pullman
300
Owning all the businesses in a certain field
What is horizontal integration (monopoly)?
300
An area below the deck on a ships lower levels
What is the steerage?
300
A social and educational organization dedicated to improving farmers lives
What is the National Grange?
300
A financial crisis in the US that lead to an economic depression
What is the Panic of 1873?
400
He invented the airbrake for trains
Who is George Westinghouse?
400
When a business sells shares of their ownership called stock
What is a corporation?
400
Neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered, education, recreation, and social activities.
What are settlement houses?
400
An attempt to negotiate for better wages and working conditions in a factory or industry
What is collective bargaining?
400
He was awarded with over 1000 patents
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
They invented the plane
Who is Orville and Wilbur Wright
500
a grouping together of a number of companies under one board of directors
What is a trust?
500
One of the largest immigrant centers in the US was located on this island in the New York harbor
What is Ellis island?
500
The membership in the "Knights of Labor" decreased when it found that one its major leaders participated in this bloody revolt
What is the Haymarket Riot?
500
A period of rapid growth in US manufacturing in the late 1800's
What is the 2nd Industrial Revolution?