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He invented the phonograph and the electric light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
The largest immigration center in New York Harbor
What is Ellis Island?
100
Oil was referred to as this.
What is black gold?
100
Forced railroads to charge "fair" prices
What is Interstate Commerce Act?
100
Nick name given to rich investors or rich bosses in which the earnings were not legal or fair.
What is Robber Barons?
200
He invented and patented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
Living areas of immigrants of the same native country.
What is ethnic neiborhood?
200
This invention refined steel quickly and cheaply.
What is Bessemer Converter?
200
A worker's organization with the purpose of improving wages and work conditions
What is a union?
200
the total control of an industry by one company or person
What is monopoly?
300
In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they invented the airplane, an engine powered by gasoline.
Who is Orville and Wilbur Wright?
300
A violent strike of steel workers known as the Homestead Strike was where?
What is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
300
The making of products in large amounts quickly with machines.
What is mass production?
300
A person who starts a business or sells an invention
What is an entrepreneur?
300
The main task of the post war generation?
What is to connect the many railroad lines into one network?
400
Owner of the Standard Oil Company
Who is Rockefeller?
400
Jobs that were in demand due to the massive use of electricity were where?
What is coal mine?
400
A device that records sound then the sound can be played back.
What is phonograph?
400
Ended monopolies
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
400
This man drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania.
What is EL Drake?
500
A business man that bought small railroad companies to make larger ones.
Who is Vanderbilt?
500
These places were not set up for the good of the worker.
What is company towns?
500
An inventor's legal way to be the only person to gain profit from their invention
What is patent?
500
A person does one certain job on an assemble line, it takes many people to complete a product.
What is specialization?
500
How did machines affect the prices of products?
What is more products were made quickly so the prices went down?