A growing urban population, a wealth of natural resources and an explosion of invention are the effects of this time period.
What is industrialization
100
The name given to a large group of workers who unite together against an industry for their betterment.
What is a labor union
100
This law was enacted to eliminate monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
100
This business man bought small railroads to create a large
railroad.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt
100
What invention did Alexander Graham Bell create?
What is the telephone
200
The name given to a period of invention,big business and urbanization between 1865 and 1900 in the U.S.
What is the Industrial Revolution
200
This name was given to the large labor strike in Chicago that protested against police brutality at the McCormick Harvester plant the day before. Many police and workers died in the riot.
What is the Haymarket Affair
200
The law that enabled the federal government to regulate the railroads and shipping industry.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
200
Professor Dowd proposed the earth be divided into 24 of these which synchronized time and congress adopted them as railroad time in 1918.
What is time zones
200
Who was credited for the creation of the incandescent light bulb?
Who is Thomas Edison
300
Social Darwinism discouraged this government response to large corporations. (survival of the fittest)
What is government regulation of big business?
300
This is the name of the labor union that Samuel Gompers lead?
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
300
This process gained Andrew Carnegie total control of the steel industry by buying raw material producers,manufactures and distributors?
What is vertical integration
300
Who was the robber baron who made his fortune in the steel industry by using vertical integration?
What is Andrew Carnegie
300
This technique involving injecting air into iron ore to remove the carbon and more efficiently turn it into steel is known as...
What is Bessemer process
400
A source provided by someone who experienced it.
What is a primary source
400
Name three changes that unions fought for.
What are higher wages, less hours and better working conditions
400
This name was given to men who made their money through corruption, exploitation of workers and monopolies.
Who are the Robber Barons
400
The name given to the group of farmers and small businessmen who fought against the railroad industry?
What is the Grange
400
In 1867 Christopher Sholes invented the __________?
What is the typewriter
500
This term means total ownership of a product without competition.
What is a monopoly
500
This name was given to the radical unionists and socialists in the west.
What is Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
500
This business practice was one that bought out all competitors to control a market.
What is horizontal consolidation
500
Who made their fortune by creating trusts and monopolizing?
Who is John D. Rockefeller
500
How did the invention of the gas powered engine effect the rural population?