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Rise of Industry
The Railroads
Big Business
Lucky Guess
100
His inventions and innovations brought us moving pictures, the phonograph (record player), electricity, and the light bulb.
Who is Thomas EDISON?
100
Term that refers to a railroad line that links the nation from coast to coast.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
Billionaire steel tycoon who opened the largest steel factory the world had ever known in Pittsburgh, PA
Who is Andrew CARNEGIE?
100
Term that refers to the rapid growth of cities
What is urbanization?
200
Method of cheaply converting iron into steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
200
The Central Pacific railroad employed immigrant labor mostly from this ethnic group.
What is the Chinese?
200

Another name for the term monopoly

What is a trust?

200
He invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham BELL?
300
A type of business consolidation that involves buying out the supply chain in order to minimize production costs
What is vertical integration?
300
Besides hiring former Civil War veterans, the Union Pacific railroad employed immigrant labor mainly from this ethnic group.
What is the Irish?
300

The industry that J.P. Morgan got his start in

What is banking?

300

The year that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

What was 1865?

400

Buying out other companies in your same industry to consolidate

What is horizontal integration?

400
He made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. His name can be found on this university, located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Who is Cornelius VANDERBILT?
400

Oil tycoon who made a fortune by creating a formidable trust that controlled over 90% of the oil industry

Who is John D. ROCKEFELLER?

400

The year that Barrack Obama became president

What is 2008?

500
The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
What is Social Darwinism?
500

The name of the act that created the transcontinental railroad and the year it passed

What is the Pacific Railway Act of 1862?
500

The first female millionaire in the U.S. who sold cosmetics 

Who is Madam C.J. Walker?

500

The color of my vehicle

What is grey?