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100
Henry Ford created the assembly line
Who created the assembly line?
100
Transcontinental Railroad
What was the transportation system that was used during the industrial revolution?
100
Monopoly
What is it called when someone has full control of a commodity and service?
100
The Jungle
What book did Upton Sinclair write?
100
Stock
What is it called when you share a partial ownership with a corporation through issues of shares?
200
Andrew Carnegie created the steel industry
Who created the steel industry?
200
Coal, Steel, Timber
What were three industries that were affected by the building of railroads?
200
Cottage Industry
What is a business or manufacturing activity carried out in a persons home?
200
Sweatshop
What is a factory or workshop where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions?
200
Strike
What is it called when employes refuses to work in form of protest?
300
John D. Rockfeller had a monopoly on oil
Who owned standard oil and had a monopoly on oil?
300
Promontory Summit, Utah
Where was the location where the central and Union Pacific to connect the transcontinental railroad?
300
Union
What is an organization established to help its employees improve working conditions?
300
Prosecution
What is it called when you sentence someone to hostility especially because of their race or religious beliefs?
300
Surplus
What is the amount of something left over when requirements have been met?
400
J.P. Morgan
Who invested in hard economic times?
400
Industrial Revolution
What is the transition from an agricultural to an industrial nation?
400
Accumulate
What is it called when you gather together or increase in quantity?
400
The Jungle
What book described the poor conditions of the meat packing industry?
400
Collective Bargaining
What is it called when negation of wages and other conditions are made?
500
Cornelius Vanderbilt had a monopoly on the railroad industry.
Who had a monopoly on the railroad industry?
500
Consolidate
What is it called when you combine a number of things into a more coherent whole?
500
Subsidy
What is the money granted by the government to assist in an industry?
500
Boycott
What is the withdrawal from commercial or social relations as a form of protest?
500
Knights of Labor
Which group of people called for eight hours of work?