Words #2 19-21

Question 1

Eli H. Janney

Answer 1

Linking Cars

Question 2

Gustavus Swift

Answer 2

Refrigerated Cars

Question 3

George M. Pullman

Answer 3

Sleeping/Comfort rail cars

Question 4

George Westinghouse

Answer 4

Air brakes

Question 5

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 5

Railroad baron, made fortunes buying railroads

Question 6

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 6

Invented the telephone

Question 7

George Eastman

Answer 7

Invented the small camera

Question 8

Lewis Latimer

Answer 8

Improved Edison’s lightbulb

Question 9

Henry Ford

Answer 9

Built inexpensive model-T car

Question 10

Assembly line

Answer 10

Less expensive way to make products

Question 11

Shareholders

Answer 11

Owners of stocks

Question 12

Dividends

Answer 12

Cash payments from profits

Question 13

Corporation

Answer 13

Company that sells shares

Question 14

Sweatshops

Answer 14

Crowded urban factories

Question 15

Knights of Labor

Answer 15

Union of garment workers

Question 16

Terence V. Powderly

Answer 16

Leader of Knights of Labor

Question 17

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

Answer 17

1911 fire 150 workers died

Question 18

Injunction

Answer 18

Court order to stop a strike

Question 19

Stock exchange

Answer 19

Special financial markets

Question 20

Stock

Answer 20

Shares in a company owned by the public

Question 21

Seventeenth Amendment

Answer 21

provide for the direct election of senators

Question 22

Pendleton Act

Answer 22

established the Civil Service commission

Question 23

Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 23

required railroads to charge rates

Question 24

Civil Service

Answer 24

body of non elected government workers

Question 25

Pure food and drug act

Answer 25

requires accurate labeling for food and medicine