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- 2. An American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World
- 4. 1,911-mile continuous railroad line
- 7. The idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better
- 9. Owned three-quarters of the oil industry in the United States
- 11. Occurs when a business purchases or expands into other businesses in a given supply chain
- 14. United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry
- 15. A labor organization that sought to organize workers along the lines of industrial unions rather than the specialized trade, or craft, unions of the American Federation of Labor
- 16. Several unions of skilled workers in 1886 marked the beginning of a continuous large-scale labour movement in the United States
- 17. Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the power of state governments to regulate private industries that affect the common good
- 18. Invented the first practical telephone
- 19. Fearless organizer for the Mine Workers during the first two decades of the 20th century
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- 1. The first president of the American Federation of Labor, the first enduring national labor union
- 3. Inventor of the typewriter
- 5. Inventor of the light bulb
- 6. The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel
- 8. A federal statute which prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace
- 10. Illegal manipulation of contracts by a construction and finance company associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad
- 12. The first person to strike oil in America
- 13. He introduced the sleeping cars, dining cars, and parlor cars in trains
- 14. Led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century