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A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work.
What is a lock out?
100
The founder of Standard Oil, which bought out competitors and controlled about 90% of the U.S. oil refining industry by 1880.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
100
The two corporations given permission to build a transcontinental Railroad.
What is Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
100
An organization of common laborers and craft workers in a particular industry.
What is an industrial union?
100
The inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
A policy that the government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.
What is Laissez-faire?
200
A famous and wealthy industrialist who built a steel company and bought out coal mines, limestone quarries, and iron ore fields.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
The state where the two rail lines joined together in completion.
What is Utah?
200
The socialist philosopher from Europe that many labor supports agreed with on the notion of class struggle.
Who is Karl Marx?
200
The inventor of the light bulb, phonograph, and electric generator.
What is Thomas Alva Edison?
300
The total value of all goods and services that a country produces during a year.
What is gross national product (GNP)?
300
A famous labor leader who worked as an organizer for Knights of Labor before helping organize mine workers.
What is Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)?
300
The division of the country into four of these to better schedule trains.
What are time zones?
300
Troublemakers were put on this so that no company would hire them.
What is a blacklist?
300
The inventor of AC electrical currents.
Who is George Westinghouse?
400
An organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a person.
What is a corporation?
400
Built and operated The Great Northern Railroad ethically by not taking any federal land grants and subsidies.
Who is James J. Hill?
400
The majority of the laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad were from here, working for $1 a day.
What is China?
400
A strike involving some 80 000 railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia, that turned violent.
What is The Great Railroad Strike?
400
The process that made it cheap to produce high quality steel.
What is the Bessemer process?
500
The cost of manufacturing is decreased by producing goods quickly in large quantities.
What are economies of scale?
500
A successful investment banker that bought out Carnegie steel and merged it with other companies to create the United States Steel Corporation.
What is J.P. Morgan?
500
The scandal in which a construction com[any bribed people in congress in return for more federal grants.
What is the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
500
Most unions excluded these people because they were considered to be supported.
Who are women workers?
500
The original location of Thomas Edison's famous research laboratory.
What is Menlo Park, New Jersey?