1. Transcontinental Railroad
What structure was built to connect the East and the West?

2. Pony Express
This system was a form of communication in which messages were carried on a route 2,000 miles long

3. Bessemer Process
This discovery revolutionized the Steel industry, allowing steel to be made quicker and cheaper.

4. Chisholm Trail
A popular route for cowboys to drive cattle from Texas up through Oklahoma and Kansas.

5. Horizontal Integration
This business approach joined together as many firms from the same company as possible.
(Used by John D. Rockefeller)

6. Joseph Glidden was responsible for inventing what ?
Barbed Wire
Joseph Glidden was responsible for inventing what ?

7. Dawes Act
In 1887, this federal law distributed land to individual Indians rather than the tribes, thereby encouraging Indians to become assimilated?

8. Boomtowns
What was the name for towns that grew quickly when a mine opened and often disappeared quickly when the mine closed?

9. Battle of Little Bighorn
In which battle did Colonel Custer lose to the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?

10. Populists
Which group favored the common person’s interest over those of wealthy people or business interest?

11. Homestead Act
This federal law granted tracts of land to western settlers who agreed to work the land and live on it for five years

12. William Bryan Jennings
Which Democratic candidate condemned the gold standard and was supported by the Populist Party in the election of 1896 but lost?

13. Native Americans were forced from their land and relocated where?
Reservations
Native Americans were forced from their land and relocated where?

14. Light bulb
What invention by Thomas Edison allowed factories to stay open later and work?

15. Telephone
What invention did Alexander Graham Bell invent in 1876 that completely changed communication?

16. Henry Ford
Which business man used the moving assembly line to help mass produce automobiles?

17. Capitalism
An economic system in which factories, equipment, and other means of production are privately owned rather than being controlled by the government

18. Laissez Faire
Which government philosophy believed in a “hands off” approach when it came to regulating business.

19. Social Darwinism
The idea, “survival of the fittest,” was a viewpoint taken when it came to business and competition. Where does this idea branch from?

20. Monopoly
A company that completely dominates a particular industry because it has no competition.

21. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This law was passed in 1890 and outlawed trusts, monopolies, and other forms of business that restricted trade. However, this law was never really enforced.

22. John D. Rockefeller
This wealthy business owner bought out and merged with other companies to limit competition until he finally had a monopoly on the oil industry.

23. Wright Brothers
Who were the first to successfully fly an airplane and transform transportation?

24. Vertical Integration
Which business approach required taking control of each step in the production and distribution of a product. (Andrew Carnegie used this)

25. Andrew Carnegie
This man had a monopoly on the Steel Industry and used vertical integration to do so.

26. Patent
Having the sole legal right to make or sell an invention for a specific period of time

27. Mining, Cattle, Railroad
What three factors caused people to expand West?

28. A labor action in which workers refuse to work
Strike
A labor action in which workers refuse to work

29. Black Lists
A list of union members and organizers, exchanged amongst business owners

30. Yellow Dog Contracts
A written pledge to not join a union, workers were pressure to sign this or they would not be hired.

31. A small, cramped factory where workers worked long hours for low wages
Sweatshops
A small, cramped factory where workers worked long hours for low wages

32. A run down apartment building located in the slums
Tenements
A run down apartment building located in the slums

33. A group of workers organized to protect the interest of its members
Labor Unions
A group of workers organized to protect the interest of its members

34. An 1894 railway workers strike that was broken up by federal troops
Pullman Strike
An 1894 railway workers strike that was broken up by federal troops

35. The first strike ever broken up by the military
Railroad Strike of 1877
The first strike ever broken up by the military

36. Haymarket Affair
A violent clash in 1886 between union supporters and Chicago Police. It was believe that anarchists through a bomb at the police.

37. Homestead Strike
A strike at the Carnegie steel plant, resulted in union being shut out for four decades

38. Collective Bargaining
Negotiations between employers and employees concerning wages, working conditions, etc.

39. A person who rejects all forms of government
Anarchists
A person who rejects all forms of government

40. American Federation of Labor
A national labor organization, consisted mainly of skilled workers

41. The port of entry for most European immigrants, located in New York
Ellis Island
The port of entry for most European immigrants, located in New York

42. The port of entry for most Asia immigrants, located in San Francisco
Angel Island
The port of entry for most Asia immigrants, located in San Francisco

43. Which immigrants had the easiest time assimilating?
Children
Which immigrants had the easiest time assimilating?

44. Adopting American customs
Americanization
Adopting American customs

45. Favoring interests of native born Americans over those of immigrants
Nativism
Favoring interests of native born Americans over those of immigrants

46. Contract Laborers
An immigrant who signed a contract in Europe to work for an American employer

47. The prohibiting of Chinese laborers, skilled or unskilled
Chinese Exclusion Act
The prohibiting of Chinese laborers, skilled or unskilled