(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and organized power plants
Thomas Alva Edison
The main goal of this was to decrease Chinese immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act
Skyscrapers were made possible by the invention of
Elevator & Steel Framework
Developed a cheap and effective manufacturing process for making steel
Henry Bessemer
When was the Golden Spike that completed the Transcontinental Railroad driven in?
May 1869
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad is associated with the settlement of which region of the US?
West
Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in steel and donated most of his profits
Andrew Carnegie
How long was the first trip from SF to NY on the Transcontinental Railroad?
83 hours & 39 min
Up to how many acres did the Homestead Act give any American in the west?
160
A company that dominates 1 industry is called a
Monopoly
Who dreamed up the first railroad to cross the US?
Theodore Judah
What caused slow progress during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Hazardous Mountain Regions
When a business buys all the services and products that go into that business, it is said to be?
Vertical Integration
Where were most of the immigrants from that worked on the railroad?
China
Opened the way for worldwide communications with invention of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Robber Barons used exploitative practices and government influence, paid low wages, and created monopolies but did not do this to get money
Rob Banks
There was a major difference between the rich and poor during this time
Gilded Age
The original purpose of these were to provide single family homes for working class families
Tenements
Ran the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a socialist
Eugene V. Debs
Alexander Graham Bell invented what?
Phone
What kind of people worked on building the railroads?
Immigrants
Who owned the US Steel Corporation?
J.P. Morgan
Created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
A person who uses ruthless business tactics to get money from customers is called a
Robber Baron
