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Vocabulary
100
Who made the invention of air brakes for trains in the 1900's
Who is George Westinghouse
100
What invention that helped people talk over long distances
What is the telephone
100
What was John D. Rockefeller most known for
What is the oil industry
100
What is a dangerous and urban factories called
What is a sweatshop
100
What is a sweatshop
What is a factory where workers worked long hours with low pay
200
What was it idea called that made it so the width of the railroad tracks where the same width
What is standard gauge
200
What man invented automobiles
Who is Henry Ford
200
Why was Andrew Carnegie famous
What is the steel company
200
Who was the AFL lead by
Who is Samuel Gompers
200
What is a trade union
What is an organization with workers with the same skill
300
Who was the inventor that made it easier to link cars together
What is Eli H. Janney
300
What was the code called that a telegraph transmitted
What is morse code
300
Who was the leader of the knights of labor
Who is Terence V. Powderly
300
A combination of corporations formed by a legal agreement
What is a trust
400
What where the discounts called that the large railroads would give to their biggest customer
What is a rebate
400
Who layer down a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean
Who is Cyrus Field
400
What became a huge business in the late 1800's
What is the steel
400
What is a railroad baron
What is powerfull businessmen who controlled the railroads
500
About how many miles of track where there by 1900
What is 193,000 miles
500
What is a chain store
What is stores with identical branches in many places
500
Which act prohibited trusts and monopolys
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
500
What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Factory
What is a fire
500
What is mass production
What is production of large quantities of items or goods