chapter 6 us history

2. founded first oil company; became one of the world's wealthiest men and a major philanthropist.
7. United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the power of state governments to regulate private industries that affect the common good.
11. founded the American Federation of Labor and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894
15. an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.
16. two-part fraud conducted from 1864 to 1867 by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
17. a radical labor union primarily of unskilled laborers that was prominent in the first decades of the 20th century that sought to organize unskilled laborers in order to challenge and overthrow the capitalist system.
18. a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce.
20. an expansion strategy adopted by a company that involves the acquisition of another company in the same business line.
21. an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States

1. an expansion strategy where one company takes control over one or more stages in the production or distribution of a product.
3. the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.
4. train route that traveled across america
5. inexpensive industrial process for producing steel
6. led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
8. american inventor, created the light bulb
9. first american to drill for oil- successful business man
10. a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL-CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support
12. federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be reasonable and just
13. inventor who created the QWERTY keyboard and typewriter
14. patented the first functional telephone
19. manufactured the pullman sleeping car and founded a town