Chapter 16 American Republic

What was used to stop strikes

injunctions

what is a name of a business owned by two or more people

partnership

what is a supersized corporation of combined businesses

trust

what is the focus on money and possessions

materialism

What is a one-owner business?

sole proprietorship

What is the group of local unions composed of skilled laborers

Knights Labors

what railroad was built in the northern US and Canada

Union Pacific

What railroad was built in the late 1860s by Irish workers and war veterans

Great American railroad

What railroad was built eastward across the Sierra Nevada

Central Pacific

What great American inventor developed many important electrical devices but is perhaps most remembered for his light bulb?

Thomas Edison

What conditions caused many immigrants to come from ireland in the 1840s

potato blight

Who organized the American Federation of Labor?

Samuel Gompers

What legislation did Congress pass in 1890 to try to stop the formation of trusts

Sherman Anti-trust act