10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Railroads Spur Industry Big Business Inventions Change a Nation Organized Labor Pot Luck
Name this Historic Event
What was called the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
These were some of the new improvements added to trains
What were railroad brakes, sleeping cars, and dining cars.?
He was the founder of the New York Central Railroad
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt ?
This is what the railroad owners offered passengers, that would put money back in their pocket for riding their railroad line
What was a rebate?
This term is used to describe when several railroad companies agreed to divide up their business in one area. They then fixed the railroad prices at a high level.
What was pooling?
This process enables steel to be made at a very low cost
What was the Bessemer Process?
This city became the steel capital of the United States
What was Pittsburgh?
He made his fortune in the steel industry in the 1870’s
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Name a mail order catalog that was started in the 1870’s
What was the Sears or Montgomery Ward Catalogs ?
The term used to describe a business that is owned by investors
What was a corporation?
He invented the telegraph
Who was Samuel Morse ?
This man invented the telephone
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
He invented a machine that could oil machines automatically
Who was Elijah McCoy?
He invented a machine that could make shoes automatically
Who was Jan Matzeliger?
He revolutionized the auto industry by using the assembly line
Who was Henry Ford?
They did many of the hazardous jobs during the Industrial Revolution
Who were the children?
This is the name of union that workers joined to improve working conditions in 1869
What was the Knights of Labor?
The term used to describe a protest that people participated in to try to get better working conditions
What was a strike?
This was the name of the biggest strike during the 1870’s. It involved the railroad industry.
What was the Pullman Strike?
This term is used to describe a judge’s court order to return back to a job during a strike
What is an injunction?
smoke in the air produced by factories This term describes the
What is pollution?
The term used to describe the investor of a corporation
What is a stockholder?
He purchased the Standard Oil Company and turned it into a monopoly
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
They invented the first flying machine
Who were Orville and Wilbur Wright?
This is why African Americans unable to get patents for their inventions
What was prejudice?