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Growth of Industry
Railroads
Big Business
More Big Business
Workers Organize
100
Pattern of good and bad economic times
What is a business cycle
100
A railroad that spanned the entire continent.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
A legal body created to hold stock in many companies
What is a trust
100
Term used to describe a tome of both tremendous wealth and poverty in the late 1800's
What is The Gilded Age?
100
American Railway Union President
Who is Eugene Debs?
200
Inventor of the first telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
System that divided the country into four time zones
What is Standard Time?
200
A person who gives away large sums of money to charities
What is a philanthropist?
200
Business owned by investors who bought stock in the company.
What is a corporation?
200
National organization of unions
What is the American Federations of Labor
300
The American who helped invent the Bessemer Steel Process
Who is William Kelly?
300
The two railway companies who built the Transcontinental Railway in the 1860's.
Who are Central Pacific and Union Pacific?
300
Built a monopoly in the oil industry
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
Business person who became wealthy through dishonest methods.
What is a robber baron?
300
First union to form after the Civil War
What is Knights of Labor?
400
The inventor who developed practical electrical lighting.
Who is Thomas Edison?
400
Promontory, Utah
What is the meeting point of transcontinental railway?
400
An era where the wealth of a few people masked the larger society's problems.
What is the Gilded Age
400
Town developed to produce iron and steel in 1871.
What is Birmingham, AL
400
July 1892 site of union unrest which resulted in 10 people killed
What is Homestead, PA
500
Invented machines for packaging and shoemaking.
Who is Margaret Knight?
500
Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific
What are the four time zones in the US?
500
Wanted to control all the processes related to the production of steel
Who is Andrew Carnegie
500
Lead to continuing cycle of poverty in the South.
What is sharecropping?
500
Railroad car company that was the site of union unrest in 1894.
What is the Pullman Palace Car Company