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Expansion of Industry
Railroad Development
Big Business
Labor
The Gilded Age
100
This made it possible to produce large amounts of steel for the construction skyscrapers, bridges, etc. in the late 1800s.
What is the Bessener Process?
100
This was introduced in order to benefit the railroad companies and train travelers.
What is standardized time / time zones / railroad time?
100
This was used to justify the existence of poverty, the success of business, and the power of millionaire industrialists.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
Strikes, collective boycotting, and arbitration were all methods of these.
What are labor unions?
100
This is the illegal use of political influence for personal or political gain.
What is graft?
200
These are three of the factors that contributed to the industrial boom in the U.S. in the early 1900s.
What is a wealth of natural resources / gov't support of business / growing urban population / cheap labor / new markets?
200
This was formed to steal money from railroad shareholders.
What is Credit Mobilier?
200
This is the merging of companies that make the same or similar products.
What is Horizontal Integration?
200
These were workers used during strikes.
What are scabs / strike breakers
200
This is when an elected official appoints employees based on friendship or if they helped him/her win the office.
What is Patronage?
300
This is a flexible, rust resistant material with a wide range of uses.
What is steel?
300
This was an unusual town because it was built by a company to house its workers.
What is Pullman, Illinois?
300
This is when a company buys out suppliers and distributors to cut costs.
What is Vertical Integration?
300
Double Jeopardy
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300
This helped U.S. businesses by raising the price of foreign goods.
What is McKinley Tariff Act?
400
This is characterized by a lack of competition or a lack of a viable substitute.
What is a monopoly?
400
The goal of this was to lower excessive railroad rates by allowing the Federal government to regulate railroads.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
400
This outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade / interstate commerce.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
He was the socialist leader of the American Railway Union.
Who is Eugene Debs?
400
Double Jeopardy
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500
He is credited with creating direct current
Who is Thomas A. Edison?
500
This confirmed that states had the right to regulate the railroads.
What is Munn vs. Illinois?
500
He grew his business to controll oil refining by creating trusts.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
This major strike ended in the arrest of Eugene Debs, workers losing their jobs and many being blacklisted.
What is Pullman Strike?
500
This ensures that people who work for the government are qualified through performance on an examination.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?