Inventions
Created a way to get electricity into homes and businesses
What is the Lightbulb?
An economic doctrine that opposes government regulation of business, finance, and/or the conditions of people’s working lives.
Laissez-Faire
Name one president that allowed scandal and corruption in the government, such as the Credit Mobilier Scandal (railroad company corruption) OR allowing Reconstruction to end?
Ulysses S. Grant or Rutherford B. Hayes
Time of transition to new manufacturing processes. Great growth in technology/new inventions. Many new factories were built.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
This former slave believed in gradual equality for African Americans.
Who is Booker T Washington?
This invention made it possible to build skyscrapers and lighter steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
Business owners tried to get rid of competition by owning entire/product or service in an industry. This is called a________ (Hint: Like the board game)
What is a Monopoly/Trusts?
Which Robber Baron created his industry through vertical integration?
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The term used to describe people from different countries and backgrounds coming to America and joining the American culture.
What is a Melting Pot?
This process allowed for the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
What is the Telephone?
Mark Twain coined the term_________, a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath. (hint: its what period/era we are studying)
What is the Gilded Age?
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists and captains of industry
Bonus: What are two positive things they arguably did?
Robber Barrons
This strike was peaceful and involved compromise between both sides unlike many of the other early protests.
What is the Flint Sit-Down Strike
The rapid growth of cities due to the influx of people
What is Urbanization?
Which invention changed transportation and life in America during the early 1900's?
What is the Automobile?
This is a system of consolidating many firms in the same business.
What is horizontal integration?
This Gilded Age Robber Baron who founded the Standard Oil Company
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This invention launched the Industrial Revolution. It fueled the growth of slavery in the United States.
What is the cotton gin?
This person helped found the Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who is W.E.B Dubois?
This invention allowed for better transportation and storage of food.
What is the refrigerator?
This innovation in factories created a more efficient production of goods, making goods (such as automobiles) cheaper and more widely available to Americans
What is the assembly line?
JP Morgan controlled the_________ industry; Rockfeller controlled the___________ industry; and Carnegie controlled the_________ industry.
What is Banking (Morgan); Oil (Rockefeller), Steel (Carnegie)?
An economy where businesses make the decisions about how much to produce and at what price
What is a capitalist economy?
A common technique used by labor unions, where groups of employees refuse to work until their demands are met, is called ___________.
What is a strike?
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States?
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
Organizations formed by workers to advocate/negotiate/fight for improved working conditions.
What are labor unions?
These "Captains of Industry" bitterly opposed their workers unionizing
Who was John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie?
A belief that native- born white Americans were superior to newcomers/immigrants?
What is nativism?
This was one of the most violent worker conflicts in United States history between Carnegie steel workers and Pinkertons (private military hired by Frick/Carnegie)
What is the Homestead Strike?