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#16 What is the transcontinental railroad in the North?

Great Northern Railroad

#36 Where was the first transcontinental railroad completed?

Promontory Point, Utah

#4 Most of America's early business were what type?

sole proprietorships (owned by one person)

#13 What is a one-owner business?

sole proprietership

What is a group of businessmen who buy up stock to control several separate businesses?

a holding company

#14 What was built in the 1860s by Irish workers and war veterans?

Union Pacific Railroad

#6 How did the transcontinental railroad company receive money?

The government gave them money for each mile of track they laid.

#28 What inventor is known for the lightbulb?

Thomas Edison

#15 What is a group of local unions composed of skilled laborers?

American Federation of Labor

#21 What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

telephone

#25 What law did Congress pass in 1890 to stop trusts?

Sherman Antitrust Act

#17 What was the older union that was open to all workers?

Knights of Labor

#26 Why did so many immigrants come from Ireland in the 1800s?

potato blight/famine

The Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed because so many immigrants were coming from what country?

China

#12 What is a "focus on money and possessions"?

materialism

#29 What did the Interstate Commerce Act do? (3 things)

told railroads to set fair prices, kept railroads from charging more for short distances than for long, created the Interstate Commerce Commission

#10 What is a business owned by two or more people?

partnership

#9 What is used by courts to stop a strike?

injunction

#18 What was the railroad company that came from the west across the Sierra Nevadas?

Central Pacific

#31 What was the most common place for immigrants to enter the U.S.?

Ellis Island

#30 Which railroad did James J. Hill own?

Great Northern Railroad

#7 What industry had the first trust?

oil

What rights did labor unions want to get? (2)

eight-hour workdays, collective bargaining

#5 Many immigrants coming into America in the 1800s were what 3 religions?

Catholic, Jewish, or Eastern Orthodox

#8 What idea says that driving weaker competitors out of business is just part of the struggle for survival?

social Darwinism

#19 What country had many immigrants that worked on the western part of the transcontinental railroad?

China

#22 What was the primary reason for the large increase in the American population in the 1800s?

immigration

#2 What event caused railroads to become more advanced?

the Civil War

"Laissez-faire" is connected with what economic system?

capitalism

#24 Who consolidated small railroad lines to create a railroad empire?

Cornelius Vanderbilt

#23 Who organized the American Federation of Labor?

Samuel Gompers

#3 Which grew more during the 1800s, cities or the country?

cities (urban areas)

#27 What man built a steel empire with the help of many business partners?

Andrew Carnegie

#20 What man formed the first trust?

John D. Rockefeller

#1 How many transcontinental railroads were there by the end of the 1800s?

5

#11 What is a supersized corporation of combined businesses?

a trust