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2. Most prominent organizer in the women's labor movement
11. A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869
14. Technique involved injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities
15. A company's taking over its suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain total control over the quality and cost of its product
16. Successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania

1. made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries
3. When companies producing similar products merge
4. Invented the typewriter in 1867
5. Built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois praire
6. Organized by a group of radical unionists and socialists in Chicago; also known as the Wobblies
7. Established the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities and established a five-member Interstate Commerce Commission for that purpose
8. Established the world's first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey
9. Established Corporations such as the Standard Oil Company
10. Led the Cigar Makers' International Union to join with other craft unions in 1886
12. One of the first industrial moguls to make his own fortune
13. Construction company formed by stockholders in the Union Pacific Railroad in 1864