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Late18thCenturyPpl
A collection of important people in the United States in the late 18th century.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This industrial giant built one of the first interregional railroad networks with his combination of lines in NY and Midwest. | Vanderbilt |
| Like Vanderbilt, connected lines from Pennsylvania to Midwest. | Thomas Scott |
| The dominant system builder of the Southwest. (person) | Jay Gould |
| He invented the air brake. | George Westinghouse |
| He invented the sleeping car. | George Pullman |
| He drilled the fist sucessful well in Pennsylvania. | Edwin Drake |
| He invented the telephone. | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Developed the electric light. | Thomas Edison |
| Dominated the steel industry, using both horizontal and vertical integration. He is considered the "captain of industry". | Andrew Carnegie |
| He put together the United States Steel and purchased Carnegie steel. | JP Morgan |
| Created Standart Oil-he was an organizer and payed great attention to detail. | Rockefeller |
| Created Marshall Field in Chicago. | Wanamaker |
| Yale Professor who took ideas and applied them to Social Darwinism. "root, hog, or die." | William Graham Sumner |
| Published Progress and Poverty, an attack on the unveven distribution fo wealth. | Henry George |
| Wrote utopia novel Looking Backward, described Future America as completely socialized. | Edward Bellamy |
| Wrote Wealth Against Commonwealth, attacked standard oil. | Henry Demarest Lloyd |
| He believed the economic, social, and political conditions in the U.S. were ideal for a socialistic state. | Laurence Gronlund |
| Founded the National Grange. | Oliver Kelley |
| He led the American Federation of Labor. | Samuel Gompers |
| The 1st persident to use troops for a strike. | Hayes |
| He ran for president 5 times, the Leading Socialist Figure in America. | Eugene Debs |
| This man opened a Manual Training School in St.Louis. | Calvin Woodward |
| This man wrote How the Other Half Lives. | Jacob Riis |
| Pioneer of new skyscrapers. | Louis Sullivan |
| The first popular pugilist, became heavy weight champion. | John L. Sullivan |
| He invented basketball. | James Naismith |
| This man created football. | Walter Camp |
| This man is famous for conduction a vigourous campaign to persuade the poor to abandon their siful ways. | Dwight Moody |
| Founded the society of Christian socialists. | D.P. Bliss |
| He wrote In His Steps. "What would Jesus do?" | Charles M. Sheldon |
| Founded the Hull House. | Jane Addams |
| 2 people who denounced the new industrail civilization as leading people to worship money and materialism. | Henry Adams Walt Whitman |
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