Carnegie
The product that his company produced?
What is Steel (Carnegie Steel company)
What product did he produce?
What is oil (Standard oil company)
The period in which industrialization and large monopolies and political corruption occurred.
What is laissez faire.
Patented in 1876, this device allowed for instantaneous voice communication over long distances, famously leading to the phrase "Mr. Watson, come here."
What is the telephone?
What type of business strategy did he use?
What is Vertical integration (he bought all of the steel companies so he can manufacture railroads for cheaper)
What type of business strategy did he use?
What is Horizontal integration (He bought out all of his competitors)
A violent labor dispute at Carnegie steel company triggered by wage cuts?
What Is Homestead strike
What is Sherman anti trust act.
Known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," he developed the first practical incandescent light bulb in 1879 and a system for distributing electricity.
Who is Thomas Edison?
What was the name of the man that CO owned Carnegie's business and ended up destroying it?
What is Henry Clay Frick
What was the name given to Rockefeller due to his ruthless acts in business?
What is robber baron.
Hierarchical party organizations that controlled local governments
What is a Political Machine.
A Political practice where winning party rewards supporters, friends, and relatives with government jobs
What is spoil system.
This process, which was crucial to the mass production of steel, allowed for the construction of skyscrapers and the rapid expansion of railroads.
What is the Bessemer Process?
What was the name of the town that got flooded after the south fork dam broke?
What is Johnstown PA
What reform movement did his business practices help start?
What is Progressive reform
Due to the influx of immigrants in the US, big business took advantage of cheap immigrant labor.
What is the exploitation of immigrants.
What was created by Henry clay that established protective tariffs, national bank, and federal subsidies for infrastructure.
Introduced by George Eastman in 1888, this innovation made photography accessible to everyday people, turning it from a professional craft into a popular pastime.
What is the Kodak camera?
What type of philosophy did regarding the wealth gap did Carnegie promote?
What is Gospel of wealth
What did his philanthropic work in biomedical research help establish?
What is Rockefeller institute for medical research (Rockefeller university).
factory fire in 1911 that killed 146 immigrant women that triggered public outrage for reforms on workplace safety laws.
What is a triangle shirtwaist factory
What was created to shield devolving manufactures from European competition.
What is protective tariffs
While the first gas-powered car was developed in 1886, this type of transportation, utilizing electric motors and overhead cables, transformed American cities in the 1880s.
What is the Electric Streetcar (or Trolley)?