a type of business in which people buy stock in a company.
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Which of the following people created the Standard Oil Monopoly?
John D. Rockefeller
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Workers went on strike to protest wage cuts. The plant closed, but another union refused to work on Pullman cars. Courts ordered workers back to work and federal troops forced workers to work and many were jailed. This was the...
Pullman strike of 1894.
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A monopoly is...
one company that controls an industry.
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Before the year 1880, railroad tracks were made of...
iron.
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The 1892 Homestead Strike was..
managers at Andrew Carnegieโs steel plant cut peopleโs wages (money) to weaken the union.
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Choose one invention from the list below. Who invented it? What was the year? How did it change the United States?
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Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor of the telephone. He realized voice wavelengths could be sent by electricity.
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The Knights of Labor and The American Federation of Labor are most associated with...
Unions
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Andrew Carnegie established what?
A large scale steel production.
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George Westinghouse
Inventor of the Transformer that would make sending electricity easier, faster, and cheaper. Also invented the Air Brakes, which made railroads safer.
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One of Thomas Edisonโs major accomplishments was...
helping to create the lightbulb and making electricity more widely available.