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Question This Quaker State gentleman successfully drilled for oil by using steam power to drive the drill.

Answer 1 – 10 Edwin Drake

Question Without this person’s process of blowing air through molten iron, skyscrapers would not have been possible.

Answer 1 – 20 Henry Bessemer

Question Name two of the natural resources which made industrialization in America extremely successful.

Answer 1 – 30 Coal, iron ore, oil, natual gas.

Question This qwerty invention was developed by……

Answer 1 – 40 Christopher Sholes

Question His illuminating invention brought many people out of the dark. He also was successful in his bid to electrify New York.

Answer 1 – 50 Thomas Edison.

Question America was brought together by the transcontinental railroad at what Point?

Answer 2 – 10 Promontory Point, Utah

Question In order to make the trains run on time in each region of the country, Professor Dowd creates……..

Answer 2 – 20 Standardized time zones

Question The ultimate control freak, this man builds a town to house his employees in order to control them in the off hours as well.

Answer 2 – 30 Pullman builds Pullman, IL, one of the first company towns in America.

Question This company built railroads and charged the owners two to three times the normal rate and they were happy about it.

Answer 2 – 40 Credit Mobilier. The owners pocketed the cash and bought politicians with the proceeds. Stockholders in the railroads weren’t as happy, they lost money.

Question This Act established the right of the federal government to regulate railroads. It was not successful at first.

Answer 2 – 50 Interstate Commerce Act. It was supposed to control rates and regulate passenger service as well.

Question This organization began demanding governmental control over the railroads

Answer 3 – 10 The Grange. Farmers were upset over rates and fairness issues.

Question That thing found in many teenagers hand was invented by…..

Answer 3 – 20 Alexander Graham Bell

Question This term comes from Medieval times and was used to describe unscrupulous businessmen who had too much control.

Answer 3 – 30 Robber Baron

Question These laws were “to establish maximum freight and passenger rates and prohibit discrimination.”

Answer 3 – 40 Granger laws. Munn v. Illinois upheld many of the state laws.

Question This allows businesses to be built away from rivers. They can now locate to anywhere they want to.

Answer 3 – 50 Electricity

Question This man of steel accounted for 80% of the steel made in the U.S. His new accounting procedures led to improved cost controls.

Answer 4 – 10 Andrew Carnegie

Question Buying out the supply chain, from raw materials to manufacturing, to the final sale is known as…..

Answer 4 – 20 Vertical integration

Question This theory supported non-interference by government in business and stated that people got what they deserved, whether it be success or failure

Answer 4 – 30 Social Darwinism

Question These were used to control entire industries, most successfully by John Rockefeller, when participants turned over their stock in a company to this organization.

Answer 4 – 40 Trust Companies. Trusts were not legal mergers so it could be argued that monopolies were not formed.

Question This Act made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries.

Answer 4 – 50 Sherman Anti-Trust Act. It was not successful in stopping trusts from forming.

Question Name two reasons that people wanted to form unions

Answer 5 – 10 Poor working conditions, hour days, 6- 7day work week dangerous working conditions, no benefits.

Question He ran the American Railway Union and fought for a larger share of the profits for the working classes.

Answer 5 – 20 Eugene Debs

Question This labor organizer led a children’s march to Washington, D.C. to protest for better working conditions.

Answer 5 – 30 Mother Jones

Question Started in Baltimore, this strike spread to all of America and shut down the railroads. Federal troops end the strike.

Answer 5 – 40 Great Strike of 1877

Question By signing these contracts, laborers were promising not to join unions.

Answer 5 – 50 Yellow-dog Contracts.