This company utilized the so-called “paper wheels” invented by Richard Allen to dampen noise during travel. For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify this company that founded a namesake town in Chicago. Grover Cleveland put down a strike of workers of this passenger car company in 1894.
ANSWER: Pullman Company [accept the Pullman Strike; accept Pullman, Chicago]
[10h] After George Pullman’s death in 1897, this man took over as president of the Pullman Company. This Secretary of War under Chester A. Arthur sent in federal troops to suppress the Cincinnati Courthouse riots.
ANSWER: Robert Todd Lincoln [prompt on Lincoln]
[10m] After Robert Todd Lincoln resigned as president, this man founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African-American-led labor union. With Bayard Rustin, this man led the March on Washington Movement.
ANSWER: A. Philip Randolph [or Asa Philip Randolph]
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