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This railroad spanned across the entire width of the United States
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
100
The government did this to help encourage railroads.
What is gave the railroad companies land
100
Alexander Graham Bell created this item that we use on a daily basis.
What is the Telephone
100
Congress created this day in 1894 for workers.
What is Labor Day
100
Many Millionaires decided to do this very benign act to better their image in the eyes of citizens.
What is donate to charities
200
This Tycoon made his fortune off of the Eastern Railroads.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt
200
The government paid the railroad companies this amount of money per mile to lay tracks across the plains.
What is $16,000
200
The lightbulb was created by this famous inventor in 1879.
Who is Thomas Edison
200
This group wasn't at the round table, but they were supporting workers from their employers.
What is the Knights of Labor.
200
This smoke producing product gave the South a boost by creating large industries. James Buchanan got rich off of it.
What is Tobacco
300
The Railroad helped America in many ways, name one.
What is joined the nation together, helped people settle, created national time zones, and made the millionaire class.
300
This Act, passed by Congress in 1877, prohibited rebates and pools, required the railroads to publish their rates openly, forbade unfair discrimination against shippers, and outlawed charging more for a short trip than for a long trip.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
300
The country was divided into these four things to help keep trains on time. It is still used today.
What are timezones
300
This Union was the first United States Labor Union.
What is the National Labor Union
300
Immigrants from this country built the Union-Pacific Railroad.
What is China
400
This is when a product is sold at a much greater value than it is worth.
What is Stock Watering
400
Congress passed this Act in 1890 forbidding companies from shying away from competitiveness and made it a requirement for the government to investigate trust. This Act failed due to legal loopholes.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
400
This product of oil companies was made obsolete by the invention of the light bulb.
What is Kerosene
400
This group of people got many jobs with the coming of industry, now they fight for equal pay.
Who are women.
400
This man became rich off of the oil industry. He created the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1870 and controlled 95% of refineries in the US by 1877.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
500
These two advancements helped the Railroad become widespread, name one.
What is standard track gauge or the steel rails
500
This is when a government is controlled by the wealthy.
What is plutocracy
500
This process simplified how we produce steel and decreased the price of steel.
What is the Bessemer Process
500
This riot happened in a Chicago square in 1886 to protest police brutalities.
What is Haymarket Square
500
George Pullman created these luxurious items.
What are Pullman's Palace Cars