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