this act reestablished the government's right to supervise railroad activities?
What is Interstate Commerce Act
100
the idea that a people in a specific class belong there because of natural selection?
What is Social Darwinism
200
the process in which air was shot into iron to remove carbon and other impurities?
What is Bessemer Steel Process
200
The U.S. government gave land grants to this industry because of its importance in opening up the West?
What is railroads
200
he invented a sleeper car for the railroads
Who is George Pullman
200
the body set up by the Interstate Commerce Act to regulate railroads?
What is Interstate Commerce Commision (ICC)
200
he was the great Oil tycoon of Standard Oil?
Who is John D. Rocefeller
300
what industry led America to produce more and more steel?
What is railroads
300
railroad that finally spanned the width of our country?
What is transcontinental Railroad
300
organization founded by farmers to fight the railroads?
What is The Grange
300
The depression of this year was the worst the U.S. had experienced up to that time?
What is 1893
300
Tycoons who would sell their goods at below market level to put competition out of business and then they would hike prices up to all-time highs?
What is Robber Barons
400
The telephone was invented by this man?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
400
in which state did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific meet?
What is Utah
400
name a reason farmers were angry with railroads?
What is charged them different prices than people in the east, charged them more for short hauls than long hauls, sometimes ran them off their property
400
this man left the railroad business and entered the steel business, eventually becoming a steel tycoon?
Who is Andrew Carnegie
400
this act made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade?
What is Sherman Antitrust Act
500
this innovation allowed factories to build their plants anywhere, not just near a river?
What is electricity
500
why did railroads standardize time?
What is so that they could have accurate scheduling of their trains because towns and cities had their own local times
500
court case in which Congress upheld Granger laws against the railroads?
What is Munn v. Illinois
500
the process of buying out your suppliers in order to control the raw materials used to run your business?
What is vertical integration
500
strike where a bomb was thrown into the crowd resulting in police firing on the mob. seven policemen and several workers died in the resulting riot?