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Across
  1. 2. When a neutral third party helps workers and employers settle a disagreement
  2. 6. J Hill Built the Great Northern Railway without government land grants
  3. 8. Pacific One of the two companies that built the transcontinental railroad starting in Nebraska
  4. 9. Point The location in Utah where the Union and Central Pacific Railroads met in 1869
  5. 10. Company A company that owns stock in other companies to control them
  6. 12. Carnegie Steel industry leader who used vertical integration to grow his company
  7. 16. A group of companies managed together to reduce competition and control prices
  8. 17. Integration When a company controls every step of production from raw materials to finished product
  9. 20. Graham Bell Invented the telephone in 1876
  10. 21. Integration When a company buys or merges with other companies in the same industry to reduce competition
  11. 24. Union A group of workers in the same trade or job who work together for better pay and conditions
  12. 26. of Scale When producing more of a product lowers the cost per unit helping businesses save money
  13. 29. A business owned by multiple people called shareholders but treated by law as a single entity
  14. 31. The materials or assets like land labor and capital used to produce goods and services
  15. 32. Stanford One of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad and later a United States senator
  16. 33. D Rockefeller Oil industry leader who used horizontal integration to build Standard Oil
  17. 34. Vanderbilt Railroad tycoon who built a transportation empire
Down
  1. 1. A court order requiring a person or group to stop a certain action often used against strikes
  2. 3. A list of workers not to be hired because they were seen as troublemakers or union members
  3. 4. Alva Edison Inventor of the light bulb and many other electrical devices
  4. 5. Dodge Chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad
  5. 6. Gould Powerful businessman known for manipulating railroads and stock prices
  6. 7. A person who starts and runs a business taking financial risks to make a profit
  7. 11. faire An economic belief that the government should not interfere in business or the economy
  8. 13. Tariff A high tax on imports designed to protect United States industries during the Civil War
  9. 14. Swift Introduced refrigerated railroad cars helping transform the meat industry
  10. 15. Zone A region where the same standard time is used created by railroads to organize schedules
  11. 18. A decrease in prices across the economy increasing the value of money
  12. 19. Union A union that includes all workers in an industry no matter their specific job
  13. 22. Railroad Act Law giving land and money to companies to build the transcontinental railroad
  14. 23. Westinghouse Inventor who improved electrical systems and created the air brake for trains
  15. 25. Drake Drilled the first successful oil well in the United States starting the oil industry
  16. 27. When one company controls an entire industry eliminating competition
  17. 28. A share or piece of ownership in a company
  18. 30. National Product (GNP) The total value of all goods and services produced by a country’s people and businesses in a year including income from overseas
  19. 32. Grant Land given by the government to support building railroads and promoting settlement