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