Jeopardy Potpourri Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 The Expansion of Industry The Age of Railroads Big Business Emerges Workers Unite Potpourri Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from H1 the process for turning iron into the lighter, flexible, rust-resistant steel, which caused an increase in steel production

$100 Answer from H1 Bessemer Process

$200 Question from H1 This man successfully used the steam engine to drill for oil in Pennsylvania, creating a rush for oil exploration.

$200 Answer from H1 Edwin L. Drake

$300 Question from H1 invented the lightbulb and changed industry by making electricity more useable

$300 Answer from H1 Thomas Alva Edison

$400 Question from H1 In 1876, with the help of Thomas Watson, he invented the telephone

$400 Answer from H1 Alexander Graham Bell

$500 Question from H1 In 1867 this man invented the typewriter, forever changing the course of women in the workplace.

$500 Answer from H1 Christopher Sholes

$100 Question from H2 On May 10, 1869 the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met at Promontory Utah and created the first on of these

$100 Answer from H2 Transcontinental Railroad

$200 Question from H2 inventor of the sleeping railroad car, and had a factory on the outskirts of Chicago where he manufactured railcars.

$200 Answer from H2 George M. Pullman

$300 Question from H2 This law passed by Congress in 1887, reaffirmed the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities

$300 Answer from H2 Interstate Commerce Act

$400 Question from H2 Major Railroad scandal where the railroad companies created their own construction company and paid themselves large sums of money.

$400 Answer from H2 Credit Mobilier

$500 Question from H2 gave government the right to regulate private industry (including railroads). This supported the Granger laws.

$500 Answer from H2 Munn v. Illinois

$100 Question from H3 process in which a company buys out its suppliers. Moving up or down the business chain.

$100 Answer from H3 Vertical integration

$200 Question from H3 Steel Magnate born in Scotland. Revolutionized the way big business operated at the end of the 1800’s

$200 Answer from H3 Andrew Carnegie

$300 Question from H3 process in which companies producing similar products merge. Or when one company buys out its competitors.

$300 Answer from H3 Horizontal Integration

$400 Question from H3 head of the Standard Oil Company

$400 Answer from H3 John D Rockefeller

$500 Question from H3 This is the term used to describe when a company has complete control over its industry production

$500 Answer from H3 Monopoly

$100 Question from H4 president of the AFL

$100 Answer from H4 Samuel Gompers

$200 Question from H4 a craft union which used strikes and collective bargaining to win higher wages and shorter workweeks

$200 Answer from H4 AFL – American Federation of Labor

$300 Question from H4 Female organizer for United Mine Workers

$300 Answer from H4 Mary Harris Jones

$400 Question from H4 Strikebreakers who would cross picket lines during strikes.

$400 Answer from H4 SCABS

$500 Question from H4 Contracts that employers forced workers to sign to pledge not to join a union or take part in a strike.

$500 Answer from H4 Yellow dog contracts

$100 Question from H5 Term used to describe leaders of large corporations and trusts to reflect their power and unscrupulous natures

$100 Answer from H5 Robber Baron

$200 Question from H5 said that natural selection enabled the best-suited people and businesses to survive and succeed

$200 Answer from H5 Social Darwinism

$300 Question from H5 negotiations between labor and management, used to try and prevent a strike

$300 Answer from H5 Collective Bargaining

$400 Question from H5 union of radicals and socialists nicknamed the Wobblies

$400 Answer from H5 IWW – Industrial Workers of the World

$500 Question from H5 made it illegal to form agreements that interfered with free trade between states

$500 Answer from H5 Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Final Jeopardy How did government both support big business and then come to break down big business during the late 1800’s? Give some examples.

Final Jeopardy Answer Big business was allowed to expand at a rapid rate while be largely unchecked. The government supported this by giving lands in the west and not passing legislation to stop expansion. Later the government had to intervene to support the worker and consumers. The Sherman Antitrust Act and the Granger Laws help to enforce this, and set the stage for a showdown between big business and the government at the turn of the century.