He invented the mimeograph and the motion picture.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
This 1886 incident in Chicago stemmed from the death of a McCormick Harvester plant worker.
What is Haymarket Square?
100
This federal board, established in 1887, was meant to supervise railroad activities.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
100
This union believed in limiting membership to skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
100
Name two improvements made to railroads during this time period.
What is standard gauge, Westinghouse Air Brake, steel rails, double tracking, etc.
200
In his sixties he switched from railroads to steam engines.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
200
This 1894 strike involved members of the American Railway Union and spread across the country.
What is the Pullman Strike?
200
This 1890 federal act was meant to restore competition in business.
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
200
This union lost many members after Haymarket Square.
What is the Knights of Labor?
200
This iron deposit was found in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota.
What is Mesabi?
300
He was in Homestead to crush the strike in 1892.
Who is Henry Frick?
300
Pittsburgh was the home base of this steel titan.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
One of two Supreme Court cases of this era that dealt with railroad issues.
What is Munn v. Illinois or Wabash v. Illinois?
300
He was the most well-known member of the Knights of Labor.
Who is Terence Powderly?
300
This was a major graft scandal associated with the building of the transcontinental railroad.
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal?
400
He formed the country's first billion dollar corporation.
Who is J. Pierpont Morgan?
400
Nickname for first oil well drilled in Pennsylvania
What is Drake's Folly?
400
This was how President Cleveland justified sending in federal troops to crush the Pullman Strike.
What is attaching US mail trucks to Pullman Cars?
400
This union fought successfully for an eight hour workday for government workers.
What is the National Labor Union?
400
This railroad developer believed the prosperity of a rail line depended on the prosperity of the area around it.
Who is James Hill?
500
He believed it was impossible to grow an American Beauty Rose without snipping the buds that grow up around it.
Who is Rockefeller?
500
The failure of the Pullman Strike in Chicago convinced this president of the American Railway Union that unions would never succeed without government support.
Who is Eugene Debs?
500
There was nothing illegal about bringing in these private security guards to bring in strikebreakers/scabs.
What are Pinkertons?
500
This British philosopher popularized the idea of Social Darwinism.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
500
He gave the Acres of Diamonds speech across the country.