Industrial Revolution 9 Jeopardy Template

Inventors	Railroads	Miscellaneous	Business	Labor Movement
100 Who developed a namesake process alongside William Kelly to manufacture steel? Henry Bessemer	100 Who designed a namesake town in Illinois for the employees of his railroad-car factory? George M. Pullman	100 What economic and social philosophy was supposedly based on a biologist's theory of evolution by natural selection? Social Darwinism	100 What is a business organization in which competing companies are under the control of a single group? Trust	100 Who, formerly a cigar maker, eventually became the president of a local union? He dedicated his life to helping working Americans, eventually helping to gain respect and recognition for organized labor. Samuel Gompers
200 Who established the world's first research laboratory and invented an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power? Thomas Alva Edison	200 Who purchased a number of small railroads near New York after the Civil War and linked them into a larger network? Cornelius Vanderbilt	200 What established the right of government to regulate private industry to serve the public interest? Munn v. Illinois	200 What is having complete control in the marketplace, without any outside competition? Monopoly	200 Who attempted to form an industrial union, the American Railway Union, and further won a strike for higher wages in 1894? Eugene V. Debs
300 Who invented the typewriter in 1867? Christopher Sholes	300 What, completed in 1869, linked the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States? Transcontinental Railroad	300 What is a form of capitalism that allows companies to conduct business without intervention by the government? laissez-faire	300 What is a business owned by investors who buy part of the company through shares of stock? Corporation	300 What is negotiation between employers and an organized group of employees on conditions of employment, such as wages or hours? Collective Bargaining
400 Who worked alongside Thomas Watson to invent the telephone? Alexander Graham Bell	400 What company was used by the owners of the Union Pacific Railroad to fraudulently skim off railroad profits for themselves? Credit Mobilier	400 What, enacted in 1890, was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trust? Sherman Antitrust Act	400 What is an arrangement whereby companies in the same industry divide up the businesses, each taking a part of the market and agreeing not to take more? Pool	400 What is an alliance of trade and craft unions, formed in 1886? American Foundation of Labor (AFL)
500 Who designed a namesake town in Illinois for the employees of his railroad-car factory? George M. Pullman	500 What was passed in 1887 to reestablish the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities? Interstate Commerce Act	500 Who, born in Scotland, was one of the first industrial moguls to make his own fortune? Andrew Carnegie	500 What is a corporation that does nothing but buy out the stock of competing companies to strengthen their control over the market? Holding Company	500 What is a labor organization for unskilled workers, formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists in 1905? Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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