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Inventions
Railroads
Captains of Industry or Robber Baron
Unions and Strikes
Misc.
100
Inventor's most important invention was the electric lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Railroad barons were created bringing all companies into one.
What is consolidation?
100
Made cars affordable and created the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
100
Child-labor laws were passed for children working here.
What are factories?
100
Combining of different companies.
What is mergers?
200
Invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
Created a railroad sleeping car.
Who is George Pullman?
200
Created Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
Antilabor feeling grew after the bloody clash in Chicago.
What is Haymarket Roit?
200
Practice of combining separate companies in an industry.
What is consolidation?
300
Build the Model T.
Who is Henry Ford?
300
Popular railroad work song.
What is "John Henry"?
300
Created steel company and was a great philanthropist.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
In 1881, a group of national trade unions formed.
What is American Federation of Labor?
300
Built an electric power plant that lit up 85 buildings in New York City.
Who is Thomas Edison?
400
Invented a small camera.
Who is George Eastman?
400
Developed railroad refrigerator cars.
Who is Gustavus Swift?
400
The philanthropist who built more than 2000 libraries.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
Pullman Strike Leader.
Who is Eugene Debs?
400
Site of first oil well.
What is Titusville, PA?
500
Laid a transatlantic telegraph cable.
Who is Cyrus Field?
500
The railroad baron.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
500
Complete control of an industry.
What is a monopoly?
500
Steelworkers' union dwindled after the failure of what.
What is the Homestead Strike?
500
Made a shoe-making performed many step previously done by hand.
Who is Jan E. Matzeliger?