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These inventions improved railroad travel.
What is the standard gauge, sleeping car, and refrigerated car?
100
He managed to lay a telegraph cord across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Cyrus Field?
100
This is the second factor of of production.
What is Labor?
100
This is how many hours a week industrial laborers typically worked.
10 to 12 hours
100
this is what the Great Ertanes was made of.
What is oil?
200
This is a uniform system of telling time.
What is standard time?
200
He invented a vacuum cleaner in 1899.
Who is John Thurman?
200
One way a company could raise a capital by becoming a ___________.
corporation
200
This is when there was growing antilabor feelings.
What happened during the 1800's?
200
This is Thomas Edison's nickname.
What is the Wizard of Merlo Park?
300
This decade saw the largest increase in track miles.
What happend in the 1900's?
300
He invented a small box camera called the Kodak.
Who is George Eastman?
300
These were the first businesses to form corporations, followed by manufacturing firms.
What are railroads?
300
Woman and children were treated like this as members of the industrial workforce.
Who was treated very poorly?
300
The railroads would do this to farms.
What would destroy farms?
400
This is how railroad barons would build there fortunes.
Why would they increase prices?
400
He was an engineer, developed, improved a wire for the lightbulb, and joined Edison's company.
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?
400
It made profits by lending money to new businesses.
What is a bank?
400
The 1902 Anthracite coal strike and the Ludow massacre effected these people.
Who are the miners?
400
Were the early labor unions successful?
Yes
500
This gave people an easier way to travel in the US.
What is railroad expansion?
500
He invented the Model T.
Who is Henry Ford?
500
During this year the oil industry grew rapidly.
What happened in the late 1800's?
500
This is the biggest expence that most people had.
What is rent:$4-$10
500
This is Grandville Woods nickname.
What is the Black Edison?