Industry Comes Of Age
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| 759312927 | Federal land grants and subsidies | Encouraged the railroads to build their lines across the North American continent. | 0 | |
| 759312928 | Union Pacific Railroad | A railroad that started in Omaha, and it connected with the Central Pacific Railroad in Promentary Point, UTAH | 1 | |
| 759312929 | Central Pacific Railroad | A joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes. | 2 | |
| 759312930 | Great Northern Railroad | ...A railroad that started in Sacramento , and connected with the Union Pacific Railroad in Promentary Point, UTAH | 3 | |
| 759312931 | Stock Watering | Dishonest device in which railroad promoters artificially inflated the price of their stocks and bonds | 4 | |
| 759312932 | Huse vs. Glover | Supreme Court case of 1886 Prevented states from regulating railroads Prevented other forms of interstate commerce | 5 | |
| 759312933 | Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) | Federal regulatory agency often used by rail companies to stabilize the industry and prevent ruinous competition | 6 | |
| 759312934 | Telephone | Late-nineteenth-century invention Revolutionized communication and created a large new industry relying heavily on female workers | 7 | |
| 759312935 | Standard Oil | First of the great industrial trusts Organized a principle of horizontal integration | 8 | |
| 759312936 | United States Steel Corporation (USSC) | The first billion-dollar American corporation Organized when J.P. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie | 9 | |
| 759312937 | New South | The technologically advanced industrial South | 10 | |
| 759312938 | Colored National Labor Union (CNLU) | Black labor organization that briefly flourished in the late 1860s | 11 | |
| 759312939 | Knights of Labor | Secret, ritualistic labor organization Enrolled both skilled and unskilled workers Collapsed after the Haymarket Square bombing | 12 | |
| 759312940 | The American Federation of Labor's concentration on skilled craft workers | Skilled Labor Organizations Created a strong but narrowly based union organization. | 13 | |
| 760848775 | American Federation of Labor | Labor group for SKILLED workers | 14 | |
| 760848776 | Leland Stanford | Former governor of California Ivy League donator of the West Central Pacific Railroad | 15 | |
| 760848777 | Russel Conwell | Pro-business clergyman "Acres of Diamonds" speech-criticized the poor | 16 | |
| 760848778 | James J. Hill | Railroad builder Felt dedicated to the public Northern Pacific Railroad | 17 | |
| 760848779 | Cornelius Vanderbuilt | Creator of the New York Central rail line Considered the law an obstacle to success | 18 | |
| 760848780 | Charles Dana Gibson | Magazine illustrator who showed the athletic, independent woman | 19 | |
| 760848781 | Alexander Graham Bell | Former teacher of the deaf Inventor of the telephone | 20 | |
| 760848782 | Thomas Edison | Electric light The Phonograph The Motion Picture | 21 | |
| 760848783 | Andrew Carnegie | Steel industry leader Scottish immigrant Vertical Integration | 22 | |
| 760848784 | John D. Rockefeller | Owner of Standard Oil Trust builder based on Horizontal Integration | 23 | |
| 760848785 | J.P. Morgan | A rich banker Bought out Carnegie Steel Company Created the United States Steel Corporation | 24 | |
| 760848786 | Henry Grady | Southern newspaper editor Promoted industrialization as the salvation of the economically backward South | 25 | |
| 760848787 | Terence V. Powderly | Leader of the Knights of Labor | 26 | |
| 760848788 | William Graham Sumner | Intellectual defender of laissez-faire capitalism Argued that the wealthy owed NOTHING to the poor | 27 | |
| 760848789 | John P. Altged | Illinois governor who pardoned the Haymarket anarchists | 28 | |
| 760848790 | Samuel Gompers | Organizer of the AF of L Advocated more wages for skilled workers | 29 | |
| 760848791 | Corrupt financial dealings and political manipulations by the railroads | Created a public demand for railroad regulation, such as the Interstate Commerce Act. | 30 | |
| 760848792 | New developments in steel making, oil refining, and communication | Laid the technological basis for huge new industries and spectacular economic growth. | 31 | |
| 760848793 | The ruthless competitive techniques of Rockefeller and other industrialists | Eliminated competition and created monopolistic "trusts" in many industries. | 32 | |
| 760848794 | The growing concentration of wealth and power in the new corporate "plutocracy" | Fostered growing class divisions and public demands for restraints on corporate trusts. | 33 | |
| 760848795 | The North's use of discriminatory price practices against the South | Kept the South in economic dependency as a poverty-stricken supplier of farm products and raw materials to the Northeast. | 34 | |
| 760848796 | The growing mechanization and depersonalization of factory work | Often made laborers feel powerless and vulnerable to their well-off corporate employers. | 35 | |
| 760848797 | The Haymarket Square bombing | Helped destroy the Knights of Labor and increased public fear of labor agitation. | 36 |
