railroads big inventions organized spur business change
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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
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
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
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?