Chapter 6 "A New Industrial Age"

He was responsible for drilling the first oil well.

Why was Pullman, Illinois different from other industrial towns?

Opened the way for worldwide communications with the invention of the telephone.

_____________ are people who risk their capital in organizing and running a business.

The _____________was a process for making high quality steel efficiently and cheaply.

The Homestead Strike took place in the ___________industry.

He created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron.  He was the founder of Standard Oil.

The Great Strike of 1877 took place in the __________ industry.

Who invented and flew the first airplane?

The main purpose of the Credit Mobilier was to?

Railroad _________ meant that large rail lines took over 400 small railroads

Which of the following did Social Darwinism discourage?

Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s?

Even before the invention of the automobile, petroleum was in high demand because it could?

He ran the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a socialist.

This Act signed in 1892 made trusts illegal?

Railroad car mogul who built a town to house his employees.

This person was an advocate to abolish child labor.

Laissez-faire relies on _____________to regulate prices and wages.

If a company own the cattle, slaughterhouse, meat packing plants, and transportation they are?

The two railroads that built the transcontinental railroad were the?

The ____________ was the first industrial union.

He was a Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in steel and donated most of his profits.

He perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and power plants

A single company that achieves control of an entire market or industry is a ______________.

To make rail service more reliable, in 1883 the American Railway Association

The railroad boom began in 1862 when President Lincoln signed the _______________.

Who invented the typewriter?

He developed a a cheap and effective manufacturing process for making steel.

Because of the shortage of workers in California, the Central Pacific RR hired workers from?

Carnegie gained control of a large percentage of the steel industry by doing all of except?

He invented the Kodak camera.

Who organized the Industrial Workers of the world?

If "Mega Oil Co" owns Oil co. A, Oil co. B, Oil co. C, etc then they are?

Railroad companies raised most of the money that they needed to build their railroads from?