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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 Railroad Carnegie and Rockafella J.P MorganLabor UnionOther

2 Where were most of the railroads before the Civil War?

3 To the east of the Mississippi river

4 What two ethnic groups made up a large majority of railroad construction workers?

5 Irish and Chinese

6 What man was a genius in enterprise, making money first in the steamboat business and then the rail business?

7 ‘Commodore’ Cornelius Vanderbilt

8 What two organizations worked together on the first transcontinental railroad?

9 Union Pacific and Central Pacific

10 What Supreme Court case decided that the state legislatures had no control over interstate commerce?

11 The Wabash Case

12 What city was Carnegie from?

13 Pittsburgh

14 J.P. Morgan’s United States Steel Corporation was the first ___?

15 Billion-dollar corporation

16 What invention permanently created a market for oil?

17 The internal combustion engine

18 The phrase “___” was coined at this time and described the situation in the business world.

19 “survival of the fittest”

20 Name two other trusts that bloomed during this time.

21 Sugar, tobacco, leather, harvester

22 What did Morgan’s father do for a living?

23 He was a banker

24 How much did Morgan pay Carnegie for his company what was his company?

25 400,000 for a steel company in Pittsburg

26 What did Morgan do to companies to make them profitable?

27 Reorganize Restucture

28 Morgan worked with who to organize the Great Northern Railroad?

29 James Hill

30 What is Morganiztion?

31 Buying and reorganizing railroad for profit

32 What was a reoccurring demand of most labor unions?

33 Eight Hour Day.

34 Who did the National Labor Union exclude from their organization?

35 The Chinese (Women and Blacks were more so ignored ).

36 Who was the Leader of The American Federation of Labor?

37 Samuel Grompers

38 What year did the National Labor Union Form?

39 1866.

40 Who threw the bomb the in the Heymarket Case in Chaicago?

41 Anarchist.

42 When was Labor Day made a holiday?

43 1894

44 How Many strikes happened between 1881 and 1900?

45 23,000

46 What restricted the growth of the South during this time? Hint: railroads

47 The railroads gave good rates to manufactured goods going South, but charged bad rates for raw materials going to the North.

48 Where did J.P. Morgan donate his art collection?

49 Museum of Art, and the Morgan Library

50 What process was first thought to be ludicrous, but then revolutionized the steel industry?

51 The Bessemer-Kelly Process


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