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Ohio Oil Tycoon
Who is John D. Rockefeller
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What is Laissez-Faire
Where was the first Roller Coaster
Where is Coney Island
Grade school becoming mandatory led to what
What is rising literacy rates or the development of newspapers
Where most immigrants traveled on the ship coming to the U.S
What is Steerage
Received over 1000 patents
Who is Thomas Edison
Number of people share ownership in of a business
What is a corporation
Why were Baseball, Horse Racing and Boxing popular during this time period?
What is you could gamble on them
Led to the Knights of Labor fizzling out
What is the Haymarket Riot
This was created to eliminate confusion with railroads
What are Time Zones
Gave the last decades the name "Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain
Complete control of a product or service
What is a monopoly
Created by James Naismith in 1891
What is Basketball
Led to the nations railroad traffic coming to a halt
What is the Pullman Strike
Created in 1887 to monitor shipping rates
What is the ICC
Founder of the American Railroad Union (ARU)
Who is Eugene V. Debs
Businesses making the same product agree to limit their production thus keep prices high
What is a Cartel
Medley of music, drama, and off-color comedy
What is a Vaudeville
Prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
"Survival of the Richest"
What is Social Darwinism
Hungarian immigrant, started a morning paper called "The World"
Who is Joseph Pulitzer
The system of consolidating many firms in the same business
What is Horizontal Integration
________________________'s Wild West show showed what it was like to be a cowboy in the West
Who is Buffalo Bill
When white people of different nationalities blend together to create a single culture
What is melting pot
These programs helped immigrants learn english and adopt American dress and diet
What is Americanization