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Andrew Carnegie
100
Who invented an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power?
Who is Thomas Edison.
100
What is the term for overt favoritism towards native born Americans?
What is nativism.
100
What took place in July of 1877 when workers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad struck to protest their second wage cut in 2 months?
What is the Great Strike of 1877.
100
What is the term used for the growth of cities (mostly in the Midwest and Northeast)?
What is urbanization.
100
What business did Carnegie enter in 1873?
What is steel business.
200
Who was one of the first industrial moguls to make his own fortune?
Who is Andrew Carnegie.
200
What new scientific theory was thought to explain Carnegie's success?
What is Social Darwinism.
200
What was an early reform program that preached salvation through service to the poor?
What is the Social Gospel Movement.
200
What was designed to assimilate people of wide raging cultures into the dominant culture?
What is the Americanization Movement.
200
Where did Carnegie work at age 18?
What is Pennsylvania Railroad.
300
Who's corporation, Standard Oil Company, processed 2-3% of the country's oil in 1870?
Who is John Rockefeller.
300
What act established the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activity?
What is the The Interstate Commerce Act.
300
What is the name of the 1909 seamstresses' strike that won labor agreements and improved their working conditions?
What is the Uprising of the 20,000.
300
What were community centers is the late 1800's located in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to immigrants in the area called?
What are settlement houses.
300
Where was Carnegie born?
What is Scotland.
400
Who was the most prominent organizer in the Women's Labor Movement?
Who is Mary Harris Jones.
400
What is the name of a group of radical unionists and socialists organized in 1905 in Chicago (AKA The Wobblies)?
What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
400
What strike took place in the Spring of 1894 when the Pullman Company failed to restore wages or decrease rents?
What is the Pullman Company Strike.
400
What were multi-family urban dwellings called?
What are tenements.
400
What were the two main processes Carnegie used to control as much of the steel industry as possible and buyout competing steel producers?
What are the Vertical Integration and Horizontal Integration.
500
What two people opened the way for a worldwide communications network in 1876?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson.
500
What is the technique used to inject air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities?
What is the Bessemer Process.
500
What is the name of the event that happened on the evening of May 4, 1888 when 3,000 people gathered in Chicago to protest police brutality?
What is the Haymarket Affair.
500
What were transportation systems designed to move large numbers of people along fixed routes called?
What are mass transit.
500
What was Carnegie's father's job?
What is a weaver.