This is JEOPARDY Industrialism Review Mr. Booth Alex Trebek

Categories Terms and Names Age of Railroads Big Business/Labor Picture Recognition Expansion of Industry Random

Final Jeopardy

1. Vanderbilt-NY Central/Accessory Transit 2. Rockefeller – Standard Oil 3. J.P. Morgan – U.S. Steel 4. Andrew Carnegie – Carnegie Steel? Name the four Robber Barons discussed in class and their respective companies

What is a Union? Labor organization formed to protect wages and improve working conditions

Who are the Grangers? Farmers that fought railroad abuses

What is Socialism? Economic system in which government controls the factors of production for the public good

What is Collective Bargaining? Type of bargaining used in negotiations between labor and management

Replacement worker during strike or the nasty party left over on a wound over your skin What is a SCAB?

This guy built a factory town to build sleeper cards. The town had many services and positives for families. But after employees pay was cut, this led to a strike. Who is George Pullman?

This Fake construction company created the Union Pacific Railroad Company in which U.P. charged an exorbitant amount of money and “skimmed off the top "which created $23 million dollars for shareholders, congressmen, the vice-president, and future President Garfield Who is Credit Mobilier?

Grangers (farmers organization for reform) established a commission in Illinois “to establish maximum freight rates and prohibit discrimination” to help farmers and workers. This Supreme Court case in 1877 upheld this law which regulated railroads to serve the public interest. What is Munn v. Illinois?

Process of taking out the impurities of iron ore, blowing oxygen on it, while heating it up to insane temperatures What is the Bessemer Process?

The U.S. sold airplanes, tanks, and guns to the Allies under the provisions of what Act? What is the Lend-Lease Act?

His company in 190 produced by far the largest portion of steel in the U.S. using the business strategy of horizontal and vertical integration. He eventually gave away 90% of his wealth Who is Andrew Carnegie?

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What is Social Darwinism? This business mentality or practice was implemented based on a philosophy by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection in which “only the strong survive.”

The Robber Baron John D. Rockefeller owned this company. By 1870, it controlled 90% of the country’s oil production by paying workers low wages and driving competitors out of business with extremely low prices What is Standard Oil?

This Act was passed in 1887 to supervise railroad activities and establish a five member commission. What is the Interstate Commerce Act?

This Act made it illegal to form a trust (form of monopoly) that interfered with free trade and competition. What is the Sherman Anti- Trust Act?

Steel town USA in the early 1900’s because of its location on three rivers – The Allegheny, Ohio, and Monongahela) What is Pittsburgh?

This “wizard” established the first research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey and perfected the incandescent light bulb Who is Thomas Edison?

This guy’s invention changed the world of work and allowed for women to join the workforce in droves. Who is Chris Sholes?

Developed the Steam Engine to drill for Oil Who is Edwin Drake?

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He gets credit along with Tom Watson for getting the patent on the telephone – which changed the world of communication forever. Who is Alexander Graham Bell?

This man Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?

These Chinese Immigrants worked on this railroad company What is the Central Pacific?

Process that removed this impurity from Iron Ore What is Carbon?

146 female deaths in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire led to these regulations What is building codes such as the implementation of sprinkler systems, and fire escape doors ?

Night where Germans smashed the windows and burned Jewish buildings and synagogues. What is Kristallnacht?

Formed the ARU industrial union(American Railway Union) of unskilled and semi-skilled workers. One of the first unions. Who is Eugene Debs?

Led the Cigar Maker’s International Union and was the president of the AFL (American Federation of Labor)which focused on collective bargaining and higher wages for its members Who is Samuel Gompers?

What is the Homestead Strike? Steelworkers strike at Carnegie Steel Company in Pennsylvania against company president Henry Frick.

Who is Professor C.F. Dowd (1869)? Professor who created the earth’s 24 time zones and four main zones in U.S.

Who is Chris Sholes? Invented this