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an organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests
What is a union?
100
Built by the Chinese in California. (Act out the mode of transportation)
Railroad (train)
100
Late 19th century political movement demanding that people have a greater voice in government and seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers.
What is populism?
100
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
Telephone.
100
This person's ideas of natural selection inspired the philosophy behind Social Darwinism.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
What the Big Four controlled
What is steel, fuel, finances, and transportation?
200
Invented by Eli Whitney.
What is the cotton gin?
200
The transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
Invented by Thomas Edison.
Lightbulb.
200
Catalyst for the Industrial Revolution
What is the Civil War?
300
Person who embodies the Horratio Alger myth.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
Invented by Henry Ford.
What is the automobile?
300
When a person or business has no economic competition over a product or service.
What is a monopoly?
300
Invented by the Wright Brothers.
Plane.
300
This is where the two halves of the Transcontinental Railroad met and was celebrated with a golden spike.
Where is Promontory, Utah?
400
IWW means...
What is Industrial Workers of the World
400
Carnegie has a monopoly on this mode of transportation (other than the railroad).
What are shipping lines?
400
A company's taking over its suppliers, distributors, and transportation systems to gain total control over quality and cost of its product versus the merging of companies that make similar products.
What is vertical versus horizontal integration?
400
Invented by Eli Whitney and he made this with interchangeable parts.
Musket.
400
A federally funded road begun in 1811 and by 1838 extending from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois.
What is the National Road?
500
Was called Commodore or Cornelius
Who is Vanderbilt?
500
Invented by George Pullman
What is sleeper cars on trains?
500
This made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or other countries.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
Invented by Samuel Morse.
Telegraph.
500
Booker T. Washington's ideas about education vs. W. E. B. Du Bois' ideas about education.
What is African-Americans should gain labor skills vs. African-Americans should get a liberal arts education?