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Inventors
Vocabulary
Years
True or False
100
Who created air brakes that helped trains for stopping?
What is George Westinghouse
100
Shares of ownership a company sells in its business which often carry voting power.
What is stock
100
What year was the telephone made?
What is 1876
100
Rockefeller lowered his prices to drive competitors out of business.
What is True
200
Who created refrigerated railroad cars?
What is Gustavus Swift
200
Total control of a type of industry by one person or one company.
What is monopoly
200
What year did congress pass the Sherman Antitrust act?
What is 1890
200
Granville Woods built the great northern line.
What is False
300
Who invented the small box camera?
What is George Eastman
300
A court order to stop an action such as a strike
What is injunction
300
What year was the improvements of new era transportation?
What is 1900
300
Thomas Edison had great hearing.
What is false
400
Who made a luxury railway car with seats that converted into beds?
What is George M. Pullman
400
A business in which investors own shares
What is corporation
400
What year was mail directly delivered to peoples homes?
What is 1863
400
Edwin L. Drake believed that he could find petroleum by digging a well.
What is true
500
Who invented a mechanism?
What is Elijah McCoy
500
The practice of combining separate companies into one.
What is consolidation
500
What year did Rockefeller form a trust?
What is 1882