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Andrew Carnegie
Who used the profits from the sale of his steel company to open libraries across America?
100
Triangle Factory Fire
What NYC tragedy led to laws about work place safety?
100
Standard Oil
What was the oil monopoly owned by Rockefeller?
100
Thomas Edison
Who invented the light bulb?
200
J.P. Morgan
Who was the banker who bought Carnegie Stell?
200
Bread & Roses Strike
What was the strike by textle workers in Lawrence, MA?
200
Monopoly
What a large company with little or no competition?
200
Mary Ellen McCormack
Who was the abused orphan whose law suit changed child welfare laws?
300
John D. Rockefeller
Who started the first oil monopoly?
300
American Federation of Labor
What was the name of the union of skilled workers & tradesmen?
300
Entrepreneur
What do you call a person who sarts a business?
300
Clara Lemlich
Who was the garment worker who called for a general strike?
400
Corneilius Vanderbilt
Who sarted the New York Central Railroad?
400
Wobblies
What was the nickname of the industrial Workers of the world?
400
Capital
What do you call the money used for investments or to start a business?
400
Samuel Gompers
Who founded the American Federation of Labor?
500
Henry Ford
Who invented the automobile assembly line?
500
Knights of Labor
What was gthe union for unskilled workers?
500
Corporation
What a large company owned by shareholders?
500
Jane Addams
Who was the reformer who fought for laws to protect working women and children?