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A New Industrial Age
The Age of the Railroads
Big Business
Labor Unions
Inventions
100
Survival of the fittest
What is Social Darwinism
100
The largest buyer of steel
What is the railroad
100
He used a trust gain control of the oil company
What is John D. Rockefeller
100
Included only skilled workers
What is Craft Unionism
100
Thomas Edison
What is invented the incandescent light bulb
200
A wealth of natural resources, government support for business, and growing urban population
What is lead to the industrial age
200
Company that made luxury trains cars and controlled the town it's workers lived in.
What is Pullman company
200
Controlled the steel business
What is Andrew Carnegie
200
Included skilled and unskilled workers
What is industrial unionism
200
Henry Ford
What is created the model T
300
Used for barbed wire, farm equipment, railroad tracks, and buildings
What is Steel
300
The earth was divided into 24 time zones. 4 zones in the U.S.
What is Railroad Time
300
Buying out the suppliers to have control over raw materials
What is Vertical Integration
300
Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states and other countries
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
300
Injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities
What is Bessemer Steel Process
400
Invention that allowed manufacturers to build factories anywhere
What is electricity
400
Act established the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
400
When companies producing similar products merge
What is horizontal integration
400
Exploration and unsafe working conditions
What is What lead to the Labor Movement
400
Steam Engine
What is used to drill for oil
500
Christopher Sholes
What is invented the typewriter
500
A construction company that stockholders gave a contract to lay track at two to three times the actual cost and pocketed the profits
What is credit mobilier
500
Setting up a holding company that only buy out the stock of other companies
What is a monopoly
500
Woman that protested with the United Mine Workers of America
What is Mary Harris Jones
500
Alexander Graham Bell
What is invented the telephone