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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?

What was one 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.

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

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 thetelegraph

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 wasJan 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 describea 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

smoke in the air produced by

factories

This term describes

the

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 firstflying machine

Who were Orville and Wilbur Wright?

This is why African Americans unable to get patents for their

inventions

What was prejudice?