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1 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Rich Dudes RailroadsInventionsSales Whateva

2 Scottish immigrant, self-made man in steel industry

3 Who is Andrew Carnegie?

4 He built a railroad empire

5 Who is “Commodore” Vanderbilt?

6 Ruthless oil tycoon

7 Who is John D Rockefeller?

8 Carnegie sold his business to him

9 Who is J.P. Morgan?

10 Term for when rich people give their money away to help society

11 What is philanthropy?

12 Big railroads that linked the east coast with the midwest

13 What are trunk lines?

14 They made sleeping cars

15 What is the Pullman Company?

16 Where the transcontinental rr was completed

17 What is Promontory Point Utah?

18 The two main ethnic groups that built most of the railroads

19 Who are the Chinese and the Irish?

20 Discounts given by RR companies that were often shady deals.

21 What are rebates?

22 He invented a process that made steel more durable

23 Who is Henry Bessemer?

24 The Wizard of Menlo Park- lightbulbs and the phonograph

25 Who is Edison?

26 His work with electrical currents made electricity more practical

27 Who is Nikola Tesla?

28 He is given credit for inventing the telephone

29 Who is Alexander G. Bell?

30 He invented a camera that was affordable to the common folk

31 Who is George Eastman?

32 A nationwide store

33 What is a chain store?

34 Departments that specialize in advertising and figuring out what people will buy

35 What is marketing?

36 Philadelphia’s first big department store

37 What is Wanamaker’s?

38 Along with Montgomery Ward, The other huge company to use mail- order to sell merchandise

39 What is Sears and Roebuck?

40 He opened the first 5 and 10 cent store

41 Who is F.W. Woolworth?

42 Labor unions were linked with these radicals who hated all forms of government

43 Who are anarchists?

44 This geographic location was the early center of the oil industry

45 What is Western PA?

46 This Southern State was one of the centers of the iron/steel industry

47 What is Alabama?

48 In a trust, stockholders gave up this

49 What is voting rights/control?

50 Secretive union whose seal is pictured below

51 Who are the Knights of Labor?


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