Inventions and Inventors
This new process made the production of steel cheaper and faster.
What is the Bessemer Process?
A social theory based on Charles Darwin's theory of "Survival of the Fittest", saying that certain individuals are successful because they are smarter, stronger, etc.
What is Social Darwinism?
This was the first railroad to connect the East coast to the West coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These conditions led to workers uniting together to try and get better treatment from their bosses.
What are poor working conditions?
This man became a steel tycoon after bringing the Bessemer Process to the US.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This invention by Thomas Edison made sunsets obsolete.
What is the Light Bulb.
Contracts employers forced workers to sign swearing they won't join a union.
What is a Yellow Dog contract?
Immigrants from this country made up 90% of the workforce on the western half of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is China?
In 1880 this percent of boys under 15 years old were working full time jobs.
What is 20%?
This man would control 90% of the US oil refining industry by underselling all his competitors.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
Alexander Graham Bell was originally trying to make a sound recorder when he invented this.
What is the Telephone.
An act passed by Congress in 1887, regulated the railroads.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Professor Dowd would suggest this map of the world, breaking up the world into 24 different sections.
What are time zones?
In 1882 and average of 675 of these occurred per week in the United States.
What are workplace deaths?
This business growth practice involved buying out all your suppliers so you fully control the production of a good.
What is Vertical integration?
This invention by Christopher Sholes helped get more women into the work force.
What is the Typewriter?
1877 Supreme Court Case that ruled that states did have the right to regulate the railroads within them.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
There are this many time zones in the continental United States.
What is 4?
This group was created to help rural farmers protect themselves against the aggressive growth of the railroads.
What is the National Grange?
This business growth practice involved buying companies that produce similar good to your own and selling their goods.
What is Horizontal Integration?
This invention by John Deere helped open up the American West to agriculture.
What is the steel plow?
The work written by Karl Marx encouraging workers around the world to unite and take the wealth/resource from the business owners.
What is the Communist Manifesto?
These are the two time zones in the state of Kentucky.
What are Eastern and Central?
This man was a railroad worker, famous for having a 3 foot steel rod shoot through his head and surviving.
Who is Phineas Gage?
This man revolutionized the Banking industry, changing how banks are run worldwide to this day.
Who is JP Morgan?