American Dreams and Steam Machines
A government issued, time-limited exclusive right granted to an inventor, allowing them to prevent others from making, using, or selling a new, useful, and non-obvious invention
Patent
Henry Ford implemented this process at his car factory in 1913, reducing the time it took to produce a car from 12 hours to ~ 93 minutes
Assembly Line
An organized association of workers formed to protect and advance their rights and interests
Labor Union
investigative reporter who exposed injustice and corruption
Muckraker
A feeling of intense loyalty to a country or group
Nationalism
Patented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1877, this invention was in hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses by the 1890s
Telephone
When a single firm dominates an industry, controlling supply and prices with little or no competition, or a popular board game
Monopoly
The process by which workers, through their unions, negotiate with employers over wages, hours, and working conditions
Collective Bargaining
A political movement that aimed to reform society improve conditions in the daily lives of working people
Progresivism
An agreement between 2 different nations to defend one another if a war breaks out
Alliance
The luminary inventor Thomas Edison is credited with this 1880 invention, but many other scientists were working on similar ideas
Lightbulb
These dirty and overcrowded dwellings popped up in industrial centers like Manhattan and across American cities in the age of industrialization
Tenements
Actions taken by employers or authorities to end or disrupt a strike, often by using replacement workers or force
Strike Breaking
A movement that aimed to make green space available and accessible to the public in response to issues caused by industrialization and urbanization
Conservation
Kind of War that will usually be won by the side with greater supplies and soldiers
War of Attrition
In 1856 Henry Bessemer patented a process that made this essential industrial material stronger, cheaper, and faster to produce
Steel
A work place characterized by low wages, long hours, and unsafe conditions
sweatshop
A town or settlement built by a company to house employees and provide them with essential services like shops, saloons, police, etc.
Company Towns
This social movement that aimed to convince people, especially men, not to drink alcohol eventually led to the 18th Amendment, known as the "prohibition law".
Temperance Movement
Germany used these to sink the Lusitania and wreak havoc on allied ports during WWI
U-Boats
Combustion Engine
A business strategy in which a company acquires or merges with competitors in the same industry to increase market share and reduce competition.
Horizontal Integration
A 1914 event where dozens of striking coal miners and their families were killed when their tent colony was attacked by strike breakers and the Colorado National Guard
Ludlow Massacre
After Upton Sinclair saw how the American people reacted to this 1906 novel, he said that he "aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach"
The Jungle
The killing of this important European Archduke started the fighting of World War 1
Franz Ferdinand