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Vanderbilt
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Miscellaneous
Frick/Morgan
100
Vanderbilt's nickname.
What is The Commodore?
100
The name of John Rockefeller's oil company.
What is Standard Oil?
100
Carnegie sent this animal across the St. Louis bridge to convince people it was safe.
What is an elephant?
100
The writer coined the phrase the "Guided Age."
Who is Mark Twain?
100
Morgan invested in this new ideas to become a big capitalist like Rockefeller and Vanderbilt.
What is electricity?
200
Before the railroads, Vanderbilt controlled this industry.
What is shipping?
200
Occupation of John Rockefeller's father.
What is a conman?
200
Carnegie's mentor he met at age 12.
Who is Tom Scott?
200
Rapidly buying up large amounts of another's compnay's stock.
What is a hostile takeover?
200
The hunting and fishing club built by Frick.
What is South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club?
300
In 1866, Vanderbilt was struggling because of this loss.
What is the loss of his son?
300
Rockefeller built this to transport his oil, once the railroads formed an alliance.
What is pipeline?
300
Carnegie blamed this man for Tom Scott's death.
Who is Rockefeller?
300
A new movement in America at the turn of the century that focused its anger on Frick.
What is anarchy?
300
The group Frick called in to end the Homestead Strike.
Who are the Pinkertons?
400
The bridge Vanderbilt closed to convince his business adversaries he was still powerful.
What is the Albany Bridge?
400
Rockefeller controlled 90% of the oil in North American creating the first one of these.
What is a monopoly?
400
This famous structure was built by Carnegie to demonstrate his wealth.
What is Carnegie Hall?
400
This process cut the time for manufacturing steel from 2 weeks to 15 minutes.
What is the Bessemer Process?
400
Nikola Tesla disagreed with Edison wanting high voltage and this type of current.
What is AC (alternating current)?
500
The two men who schemed Vanderbilt by deflating the value of his railroad stock.
Who are Gould and Fisk?
500
Rockefeller wanted to avoid finding oil wells; so he focused on this step in the process.
What is refining oil?
500
With the railroad market destroyed, Carnegie turned to this steel industry.
What is structural steel?
500
The movie the Wizard of Oz is said to be an allegory of this turn of the century movement.
What is Populism?
500
This man believed in and agreed to finance Nikola Tesla.
Who is George Westinghouse?