Steel and Oil
This product helps to produce gasoline and tar.
What is Oil?
When one company owns a vast major of market power in an industry.
What is a monopoly?
A fire at this location was deadly due to locked doors and no fire escapes.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
This man controlled the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This animal provides Plains Indians with food, clothing and shelter.
What is the Buffalo?
Skyscrapers were made possible by the mass production of this good.
What is steel?
A combination of companies under one owner or board of directors.
What is a trust?
This allowed businesses to communicate faster and more efficently.
What is the telephone?
This man controlled the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This was the name for people who snuck into Oklahoma early to claim the best land.
Who are the Sooners?
This system allowed producers to make more products and utilize machine power to make production more efficent.
What is the factory system?
A workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay.
What is a sweatshop?
This person invented the motion picture industry.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This man helped America during the Panic of 1907.
Who is JP Morgan?
This was a cowhands worst fear.
What is a stampede?
This process was used to mass produce steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
The role of government in a free market economy.
What is nothing?
This government agency saw value in "flying machines".
What is the US Military?
Carnegie became one of these later in life in order to help society.
What is a philanthropist?
This treaty promised Native Americans supplies, animals, and the rights to their land.
What is the Fort Laramie Treaty?
This man invented the first commercial oil well.
Who is Edwin Drake?
This prevents contracts, combinations, and conspiracies in restraints of trade.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This scottish-born teacher of the deaf invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This was the name of practice Rockefeller used to ensure he had control over all aspects of production.
What is Vertical Integration?
The Philadelphia and this railroad went bankrupt, starting the panic.
What is Reading Railroad?