Who was the person that successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
100
Transcontinental Railroad
On May 10, 1869, the ____________ ____________ came together in Promonotory, Utah and connected the East to the West.
100
Andrew Carnegie
_____________ started out working on railroads but became fascinated with the Bessemer Process and became a steel Tycoon.
100
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
This group focused on collective bargaining, or negotiation between reps and management to get good wages, hours, and working conditions.
100
Homestead Act
In 1862, what act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who promised to farm it for five years?
200
Bessemer Process
The process of injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities is called the __________ ____________.
200
By the Position of the Sun
Before standard time zones, how was time calculated in the United States?
200
Vertical Integration
_________ __________ is a process in which you control all aspects of a corporation such as resources, manufacturing, and distribution.
200
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
This group, AKA Wobblies, included African Americans and worked to get better work conditions for workers.
200
Sodbusters
What name was given to the farmers who made their homes from soil, held together by grass roots?
300
Typewriter
Christopher Sholes invented this contraption that allowed secretaries of companies to not hand write everything.
300
George M. Pullman
This man created a town for his factory workers (built sleeping cars) that was run very strictly.
300
Social Darwinism
________ ___________ is the belief that the best people in an industry will pass on their traits, the strong will survive and the weak will stay weak.
300
Answers will vary
Describe the Haymarket Affair.
300
Supply
What caused the price of wheat to drop from $1.19 a bushel in 1881 to just $.49 cents in 1884… an increase in supply or an increase in demand?
400
Lightbulb
The invention of the _________ allowed people to work into the evening hours without the use of candles.
400
Credit Mobilier
In this scandal, stockholders gave this company a contract to lay track at two to three times the actual cost, they then pocketed the profits.
400
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company, owned by ___________ ___ ___________, gained power by putting his stock owners in a trust, where they would have committees making the financial decisions to gain power of similar companies.
400
Pullman’s
__________ company went on strike when laborers decided to fight for higher pay. (hint: he was the founder of a town for his workers)
400
Drought; Too much rain; Grass fires; Blizzards
What was a problem from “Mother Nature” that the farmers on the plains had to deal with?
500
Alexander Graham Bell
The telephone was invented by this man.
500
The right for the fed. Gov’t to supervise railroad activities
What did the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887 establish?
500
Robber Barons
Men like Carnegie and Rockefeller were called __________ ________ because they controlled most of the market for their resources by beating other companies into the ground.
500
Mary Harris Jones (AKA: Mother Jones)
Fought for women’s working rights, and also worked for many other worker’s rights.
500
Drought; Too much rain; Grass fires; Blizzards
What was another problem from “Mother Nature” that the farmers on the plains had to deal with?