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200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Rich Dudes RailroadsInventionsSales Whateva
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Scottish immigrant, self-made man in steel industry
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Who is Andrew Carnegie?
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He built a railroad empire
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Who is “Commodore” Vanderbilt?
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Ruthless oil tycoon
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Who is John D Rockefeller?
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Carnegie sold his business to him
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Who is J.P. Morgan?
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Term for when rich people give their money away to help society
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What is philanthropy?
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Big railroads that linked the east coast with the midwest
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What are trunk lines?
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They made sleeping cars
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What is the Pullman Company?
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Where the transcontinental rr was completed
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What is Promontory Point Utah?
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The two main ethnic groups that built most of the railroads
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Who are the Chinese and the Irish?
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Discounts given by RR companies that were often shady deals.
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What are rebates?
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He invented a process that made steel more durable
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Who is Henry Bessemer?
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The Wizard of Menlo Park- lightbulbs and the phonograph
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Who is Edison?
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His work with electrical currents made electricity more practical
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Who is Nikola Tesla?
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He is given credit for inventing the telephone
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Who is Alexander G. Bell?
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He invented a camera that was affordable to the common folk
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Who is George Eastman?
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A nationwide store
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What is a chain store?
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Departments that specialize in advertising and figuring out what people will buy
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What is marketing?
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Philadelphia’s first big department store
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What is Wanamaker’s?
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Along with Montgomery Ward, The other huge company to use mail- order to sell merchandise
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What is Sears and Roebuck?
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He opened the first 5 and 10 cent store
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Who is F.W. Woolworth?
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Labor unions were linked with these radicals who hated all forms of government
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Who are anarchists?
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This geographic location was the early center of the oil industry
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What is Western PA?
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This Southern State was one of the centers of the iron/steel industry
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What is Alabama?
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In a trust, stockholders gave up this
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What is voting rights/control?
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Secretive union whose seal is pictured below
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Who are the Knights of Labor?
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