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Homestead
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Business
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100
This is the only positive part about moving West.
What is free land?
100
This is the meaning of "transcontinental".
What is across the continent/country?
100
This is what investors receive in exchange for money given to a company.
What is stock?
100
This group benefits from a monopoly.
What are business owners?
100
This inventor is credited with producing the first automobile.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
This phrase refers to moving West as being what settlers were "born to do".
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
This group of people helped to build the railroads.
What are immigrants?
200
This is a reason workers might strike.
What are unfair wages, unsafe conditions, unpaid overtime, etc.?
200
This "Giant of Industry" worked in oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
This chemist worked with famers and also produced peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
300
This is the reason homes out West were made of sod.
What is not enough lumber (trees)?
300
These two companies built the transcontinental railroad.
What are the Central Pacific and Union Pacific?
300
These are people who offer to work while employees are on strike.
What are strikebreakers?
300
J.P. Morgan worked in this industry.
What is finance?
300
Alexander Graham Bell changed how the world communicates when he invented this.
What is the telephone?
400
This is a result of living in a home made of dirt.
What is lack of cleanliness, sanitation problems, infections, difficulty caring for wounds, etc.?
400
This man's invention was critically important to the production and improvement of railroads.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
400
This is the group supported by labor unions.
Who are workers?
400
Cornelius Vanderbilt became rich by working in the booming and expanding industry.
What is railroads?
400
Thanks to this George Eastman, we now have Instagram and this.
What is the camera?
500
This is what homesteaders did to build fire without wood.
What is burn cow pies and buffalo chips?
500
This benefit of the railroads is also symbolized by the "Manifest Destiny" angel holding a power line.
What is bringing industry to the West?
500
This man is responsible for the foundation of the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gomper?
500
Thanks to Henry Bessemer, this "Giant of Industry" became very rich.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
This famous failure tried hundreds of times before he was finally successful in creating the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?