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100
Railway tracks were improved by this strong metal.
What is steel?
100
This inventor is famous for inventing the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
A company that sells shares of its business to the public.
What is a corporation?
100
This man led the Pullman Strike in 1894.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
100
This inventor pioneered the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
When the railroad industry was consolidated, these few, powerful men were the leaders of the railroad industry.
What are railroad barons?
200
This man's electric power plant was located in New York City.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
This business man formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1870.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
When labor unions represent workers in bargaining with management.
What is collective bargaining?
200
Henry Ford improved transportation when this invention was built in 1908.
What is the Model T?
300
This invention allowed for more comfortable travel on trains.
What is the Pullman sleeping car?
300
The transatlantic telegraph cable was laid by this inventor.
Who is Cyrus Field?
300
This man's well led to the creation of a million-dollar petroleum industry.
Who is Edwin L. Drake?
300
Child labor laws did not apply to this industry.
What is farming or agriculture?
300
This group of national trade unions was formed in 1886
What is the American Federation of Labor?
400
Trains made it necessary for this worldwide standardization that includes the Prime Meridian and the International Date Line.
What are time zones?
400
Gustavus Swift is famous for this improvement in transportation.
What is railroad refrigerator cars?
400
This philanthropist built more than 2,000 libraries worldwide.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
The steelworkers union dwindled after this strike in 1892.
What is the Homestead Strike?
400
This labor union leader was often referred to as "Mother Jones."
Who is Mary Harris Jones?
500
Secret discounts that railroads offered to their biggest customers.
What are rebates?
500
This inventor developed transformers.
Who is George Westinghouse?
500
The government tried to stop monopolies and trusts with the passing of this law in 1890.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
After this event, antilabor feelings grew due to the association of the labor movement with violence.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
500
This president ended the Pullman Strike when he sent federal troops to Chicago.
Who is Grover Cleveland?