A person who takes on great financial risks in order organize and operate a business or businesses
What is Entrepreneur
100
Oil company that started as a refinery and to increase profits, engaged Vertical Integration and Horizontal Integration
What is Standard Oil Company
100
What invention of Pullmans did Carnegie invest in?
What is Sleeper cars
100
What travel car did Pullman improve and invest in?
( Full name required for full points)
What is Pullman sleeper car
100
When did Vanderbilt start investing in railroads?
What is During the civil war
200
Applying Darwins theory of Evolution to real life
What is Social Darwinism
200
Railroad controlled by Rockefeller and featured in the world famous game Monopoly
What is Reading railroad
200
What was Carnegies Businesses classified as?
A) Corporations
B) Partnerships
What is B) Partnerships
200
where did pullman build a town for his employees?
What is South of chicago
200
On estimate how much land in railways did Vanderbilt own?
What is 4,500 miles of railroad track
300
An exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a service
What is Monopoly
300
Approximate fortune that was reached by J.D. Rockefeller
What is $900 million
300
Who bought out Andrew Carnegie's Company?
Who is J.P. Morgan
300
When was the palace pullman car company founded?
What is 1876
300
Vanderbilt also invested in...
A) Airplane carriers
B) Steamships
C) Coal Trains
D) Automobile Transportation
What is B) Steamships
400
Purchase of companies producing the supplies and services upon which the main business depends.
What is Vertical integration
400
Standard oil owned interests in the industry with refining, storage of oil and what else?
A) Drilling
B) Transporting
C) Railroad tankers
D) Oil Fields
What is A) Drilling
400
“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.” is a quote from what book written by Carnegie?
A) Why shouldnt i have it all
B) The Gospel of Wealth
C) Wealth of Nations
What is The Gospel of Wealth
400
In the town that pullman had bult for his workers, what did he include in his town?
What is a church, library and shops
400
Along what coast of shipping did Vanderbilt control?
What is Atlantic
500
Purchase of competing in the same industry
What is Horizontal integration
500
Which of Rockefellers businesses might be viewed as ruthless?
What is Vertical and Horizontal integration
500
When did Carnegie Retire?
A) 1901
B) 1912
C) 1897
What is 1901
500
What president did Pullmans train company transport when dead?
Who was Abe Lincoln
500
The name of the railrod owned by Cornelius during 1872?