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Miscellaneous
Name My Industry I
Name My Industry II
Opportunists and Railroads
Big Business and Labor
100
This removes the carbon from iron producing a lighter, more flexible and rust-resistant metal - steel.
What is the Bessemer process?
100
I made my fortune in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
I made my fortune in the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
100
I built a factory to make sleepers and other railroad cars.
Who is George Pullman?
100
Alarmed at the tactics of industrialists, critics began calling them this nickname.
What are Robber Barons?
200
This business theory grew out of the English naturalist theory of biological evolution: natural selection.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
John Jacob Astor said, "I made all of my money in the ___."
What is fur trade?
200
Cornelius Vanderbilt made a fortune in this industry.
What is shipping?
200
This gave the federal government the right to supervise railroad activities and set up the Interstate Commerce Commission.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
200
Organization of labor for skilled workers from one or more trades.
What are craft unions?
300
Effort to buy out all suppliers in order to control the raw materials and transportation systems of an industry.
What is vertical integration?
300
"Tobacco and hydroelectric power made me millions?"
Who is James Buchanan Duke?
300
"Transportation, media and sugar made me a millionaire."
Who is John Spreckels?
300
I created a clean, safe town for my employees. When my sleeper car company failed to restore wages or decrease rents, my workers response was this.
What is the Pullman Strike?
300
Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between state or with other countries.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
Companies producing similar products merge; limits competition.
What is horizontal integration?
400
J.P Morgan made his millions in this industry.
What is banking/finance?
400
Leland Stanford's main industry.
What is railroads?
400
Stockholders gave this construction company a contract to lay railroad track at two to three times the actual cost.
What is Credit Mobilier?
400
With Gompers as our president we focuses on collective bargaining to reach written agreements on wages, hours and working conditions.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
500
Carnegie Steel Company hired armed guards to protect the plant so strikebreakers could be hired during a strike by union steelworkers.
What is Homestead Strike?
500
A famous university in California is named after me.
Who is Stanford?
500
A famous university, North Carolina's biggest rival, is name after me.
Who is Duke?
500
In this Supreme Court case, the Supreme Court voted 7 to 2 to uphold Granger railroad regulatory laws.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
500
After this event in Chicago's Haymarket Square, which included gunfire,bombs and 14 deaths, the public began to turn against the labor movement.
What is Haymarket Affair?