Question | Answer |
drilling for ? spurs the oil industry. | petrouleum |
What is the business cycle? | The bad and good times of a industries. |
New steel making method,uses less coal. | The Bessemer steel process. |
who opened a lab? In what date? Found out how to use electricity what was his most famous invention. | 1.Thomas Edison 2.1876 3.practical electric lighting. |
What is Centennial Exhibition? | Americas 100th birthday. |
What is patent? | A document given to inventor giving them the right to sell their inventions. |
A transcontinental railroad is one that? | Spanned the entire continent. |
The railroad company set up ? time and divided the U.S. into ? time zones. | 1. stander time 2. four time zones. |
Who dominated the oil industry?
Who dominated the steel industries?
Rockefeller created monopolies which does what> | 1.John D. Rockefeller
2.Andrew Carnegie
3.A company that wipes out its competitor. |
As what did Rockefeller gain his reputation? | Ruthless Robber baron. |
What was a Ruthless Robber baron? | A business leader who became wealthy from dishonest methods. |
What were both men? (gave large sums of money to charity. | Philanthropists |
The term Gilded Age meant that although society had wealthy people,there were some serious problems like what? | Corrupt Polities,and widespread poverties. |
Knights and Labor was
it allowed | 1.union organization
2.women and African Americans |
what was the event where union leaders and police clash ,several are killed. | haymarket Affair |
Andrew Carnegie reduced the ? | Wages at his steel mill in Pennsylvania. |
The Pullman strike was caused when | Pullman Place car company lowered wages 25%. |
What made strikes be made. | Wages being cut. |
who started a new organization of unions called what? | 1. Samuel Gompers
2.America Federation of Labor (AFL) |
What inventor found several ways to use electricity including the practical light bulb,the phonograph, and a moving picture viewer. | Thomas edison |
Writer Mark Twain and charles warner called the late 1800s the what? | Gilded age |
The what strike was ended when president grover cleveland sent out federal troops and jailed the leader of the union. | Pullman Strike. |