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Strikes, Really?
100
Invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
At Promontory Point, Utah, the Central pacific and Union Pacific railroads met, creating the nation's first______________________.
What is transcontinental railroad?
100
Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
Process of buying out competitors in similar fields.
What is horizontal integration?
100
This was a "Great Strike," that occurred in 1877 by the workers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads.
What is the Great Strike of 1877?
200
Perfected the incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
He was an industrialist whose company created standard railroad cars and had a company town in Illinois named after him.
Who is George Pullman?
200
A market in which one company has complete control over an industry's production, quality, wages paid, and prices charged.
What is a monopoly?
200
Process of buying out suppliers.
What is vertical integration?
200
This strike occurred at Chicago's "Haymarket" square to protest police brutality.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
300
Invented the typewriter.
Who is Christopher Sholes?
300
The Stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad used this fake company to make huge, unearned profits for themselves.
What is Crédit Mobilier?
300
Formed the American Railway Union.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
300
Founder of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
This strike occurred at the Carnegie Steel Company's "Homestead" plant in Pennsylvania over terrible working conditions.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
Introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from beneath the earth's surface.
Who is Edwin L. Drake?
400
In Mun v. Illinois, the states won the right to regulate this, for the benefit of farmers and other consumers.
What is the railroad?
400
Theory that justified the efforts of millionaires and discouraged government interference in big business.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
He led the Cigar Markers' International Union.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
400
This strike occurred in the "Pullman" Company because wages were cut but not the cost of housing.
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
Introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from beneath the earth's surface.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
500
The Interstate Commerce Act reestablished the right of the ______________________ to supervise railroad activities and set up the Interstate Commerce Commission for that purpose.
What is the federal government?
500
Focused on collective bargaining and used strikes as a major tactic.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
500
This act made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
The amount of strikes required to be out in the game of baseball.
What is 3?