How many immigrants come to the US from 1870 to 1910?

How many phones were in use by 1895?

What type of worker was part of the Union Pacific Railroad - select all that apply.

How many Chinese were hired to work on the Central Pacific Railroad?

How long did it take to complete the transcontinental railroad?

When was the first Steel Mill opened in Pittsburgh?

What company was the first to form a trust?

How much did an average worker make an hour in 1900?

How many trade unions existed in the US in 1873?

What year do the Railroad companies split the country into time zones? How many time zones are created?

Which of the following was NOT an item included in the Women's Trade Union League platform?

How much did retailers spend on advertising in 1900?

Which of the following was a problem for people when moving to the Plains? *more than one*

What percentage of the labor force consisted of women?

Where in Pennsylvania will petroleum be discovered?

What is Alexander Graham Bell's telephone company known as today?

When is the transcontinental railroad completed?

How many hours a week did people work in the late 1800s?

How many miles of railroad existed i the US in 1900?

According to the Homestead Act, people could own 160 acres of land out West if they did which of the following? *more than one answer *

What man developed the first refrigerated railroad car?

Who was the first leader of the AF of L until 1924?

The Knights of Labor worked for change in each of the following areas EXCEPT?

What caused the Railroads (B&O) to cut wages by 1877?

What man built the Great Northern Railroad from Wisconsin and Minnesota to Washington without any federal grants?

Which of the following was NOT a problem of a laissez-faire economic system?

The name associated with owning shares of a company.

A contract that required workers not to join a union.

A third party that helps workers and employers reach an agreement.

A term meaning to hire only union members.

Most Americans prior to 1920 lived predominately in rural farming communities.

A formal order issued by the federal government to halt the boycott of Pullman Cars by the American Railway Union.

The owner of the Standard Oil Company.

The name given to people who loot an industry and become rich unethically.

A legal arrangement that allows one person to manage another person's property.

Another name given to the radical socialist union of Industrial Workers of the World.

The engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad

Inventor of the phonograph and light bulb.

Invented an ice-making machine that could keep food fresh all year round.

What inventor created the airbrake?

What man was responsible for his work on laying down a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean to connect the US with Europe?

Who was the leader of the Knights of Labor?

_____ is the value of all goods and services produced during a given year.

Patented the first hand held camera.

The individual Andrew Carnegie gets the idea to produce high quality steel at low prices.

___ is the first billion dollar company.

Led the American Railway Union workers to refuse to handle Pullman cars.

Stated that capitalism is a class struggle between workers and owners.

People who risk their capital in organizing and running a business.

French word referred to government not interfering in the economy other than protecting private property rights and maintaining peace.

The situation where companies were free to make deals to fix prices by organizing pools to keep prices at certain levels?

When a company or person has complete control over an entire industry.

Who believed the state would disappear and society would exist without social classes as laborers would rise to power?

The name of smaller rail lines going into smaller communities.

Means a rise in the value of money.

The type of detectives hired to identify union organizers.

A society that does not need a government and turns to revolution to generate change.

The single item that drove down prices of shoes was the introduction of mass production.

According to laissez-faire principles if the government intervenes in business practices prices on products drop dramatically.

A problem of raising tariffs on foreign countries is that they (foreign counties) raised tariffs on US goods entering their country.

What war was taking place when Mathews High School was built?

Who became the most successful investment banker.

____, Utah is the location where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad meet creating the transcontinental Railroad system.

What are the major railroad lines crossing the US?

What type of integration became popular with Standard Oil by combining many firms engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation?

What man was given credit for his invention of the telephone?

She became popular for helping workers in the mining industry?

Developed an alternating current (AC) that permitted electricity to travel greater distances. Also developed an air brake for the railroads.

Population growth in the US in the late 1800s was due to smaller farm families and better access to jobs.

What company did George Eastman create that sold handheld cameras to the public?

Cartels are broken up only when the government created laws to prevent their rise to power.

Workers at the Homestead plant in Pennsylvania (1892) were protesting the companies cutting of wages by 20% and the fact that Carnegie Steel locked workers out.

Which of the following groups were used by Carnegie Steel to escort replacement workers in Homestead, PA?

Select the options that are considered as a problem with laissez-faire.

Laissez-faire relies upon the government to regulate prices on products.

A problem with mass producing shoes is that it encouraged more shoe makers to open businesses and it created a demand for more workers.

The advantage of using an airbrake on trains is that railroad companies could put longer and heavier trains onto tracks.

Which of the following was a reason why labor unions were formed (2)?

The Edison General Electric Company will become known as First Energy.

A positive of laissez-faire is that it kept prices lower.

The first advertising company was N.W. Ayer and Son that used images and pictures to sell products.

A positive impact of new inventions in the late 1800s is that it kept children busy working in the factories and encourage radical communists to make changes to our democracy.

Two events that led to the Pullman Palace Car Company strike was 20% cut in wages and an increase in rents on homes in company towns.

Two types of industrial workers in the 1880s to the 1900s consisted of _______ and ______.

_____ allowed people living in rural areas (1880s - 1920s) to have access to products that people in the city normally purchased.

The ____ occurred in Chicago on May 1, 1886 which called for an organized strike for an 8 hour workday that evolved into 10 police officers being killed.

What is a list of names created to identify "trouble makers" in certain industries to prevent them from getting a job?

A company would sell stocks in a business to _____ and ____ of operating a corporation.