immigrant who started one of Americas largest steel companies | ||
Place in which modern workers worked instead of at home | ||
Number of stores under the same management located in various cities | ||
A home made of prairie turf | ||
Money returned to big businesses by the railroads | ||
Congressional act past to encourage settlement on the great plains | ||
Inventor of the telephone | ||
people who come to another country to live | ||
Man who started the Standard Oil Company | ||
This gave federal land to the states to finance colleges | ||
Private companies freely competing with little or no government regulation | ||
Theory used by big business justifying the killing of Competition | ||
People who want to end or destroy all government | ||
Corrupt city political organizations | ||
The New York City political machine | ||
man who started the first five-and-ten-cent store | ||
Inventor of the electronic light | ||
Cheaper faster way of making steal | ||
provided a wide range of gods under one roof-one stop shopping | ||
Minnesotan who built the great northern rail road | ||
Pieces that are exactly alike and can be substituted for each other | ||
inventor of the sleeping car on trains | ||
Country from which Andrew Carnegie came as a young man | ||
Organizations of workers formed to get higher pay and better working conditions | ||
The man who establishes The Grange in 1867 | ||
This was supposed to Americanize Native Americans encouraging them to own property and farm reservation land | ||
Expansion of a business by buying out the competing same kind of business | ||
Expansion of a business by controlling all aspects of the business from raw materials, manufacturing, transportation and scale of product | ||
One of the inventors of the refrigerated railroad car | ||
First president of the American Federation of labor | ||
Organization established from farmers to work for their interests | ||
Several large businesses joined together to do away with competition | ||
State in which oil was drilled near the town of Titusville | ||
Situation in which one business without competition controls a service or product | ||
Kind of union made up of workers in a single trade | ||
Protest meeting in Chicago that erupted into violence; unfairly blamed on the Knight of Labor | ||
The vast grasslands extending to the west-central portion of the US | ||
Refusal to work by union members | ||
The major cattle route from San Antonio through Oklahoma to Kansas | ||
This colonel's bad judgment in attacking American Indians resulted in his death and all of his soldiers | ||
Inventor of the typewriter | ||
Person who first successfully used a steam engine to remove oil from the earth | ||
Person who organized coal miners, their wives and children to fight for better working conditions | ||
The idea that led to the rise of anti-immigration groups and demanded immigration restrictions | ||
Place immigrants arrived on the west coast past through before gaining entrance to the US | ||
Place immigrants arriving on the east coast pased through before gaining entrance to the US | ||
Place where the first transcontinental railroad was joined | ||
This law prohibited formation of businesses that interfered with free trade | ||
Person who ran the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a socialist | ||
Act that gave the federal government supervision of all railroad activities |
CHAPTER 14-15 US History
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