CHAPTER 14-15 US History
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| 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 |