Captains or Robber Barons
He said, "if you die rich, you die a disgrace"
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
A place where employees work long hours for low wages, typically in unsafe conditions.
What is a sweatshop?
The creation of these made scheduling much easier for the railroads in the United States.
What is time zones?
This city became known as the capital of steel, their football team isn't bad either.
What is Pittsburgh?
He invented (or rather perfected) the incandescent light bulb. He invented a lot of other cool stuff too in his Menlo Park lab.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This was the name of John Rockefeller's Oil Company
Standard Oil
The Manufacture of products in large quantities.
What is mass production?
This invention, by George Westinghouse, made railroad travel safer and faster.
What is the air brake?
This was Andrew Carnegie's business associate in the Steel industry; not quite as nice a guy.
Who was Henry Frick?
These brothers are credited with the invention of the airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers.
The idea by Andrew Carnegie that says that the rich are supposed to contribute to charities and help society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
The method that unions use to negotiate wages, hours and other rights.
What is collective bargaining?
This Industrialist sold his shipping empire to get involved in the railroad industry. He made it rich... I mean really rich....
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This process made steel easier and cheaper to produce. Andrew Carnegie started to make a lot of it and he got rich.... I mean really rich.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This man is credited with creating the banking system as we know it today.
Who is JP Morgan?
The government law that was mean to breakup the monopolies set up by the robber barons.
What is The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
These two methods were used by railroads to keep their biggest customers; these methods were no help to small businesses and farmers.
What are rebates and pooling?
In order to convince the people of St. Louis that his bridge was stable, Carnegie brought this with him to the opening... P.S., it worked..
What is an elephant.
He invented the transatlantic telegraph, cutting the time to send a message across the ocean from 30 days to seconds.
Who is Cyrus West Field?
What was the name of the two men who swindled Cornelius Vanderbilt out of millions of dollars by creating fake stock?
This term refers to the space between rails, which was standardized in order to make railroads more efficient.
What is Gauge?
This is why the railroad industry collapsed in the late 1800s.
What is there were too many railroads and not enough demand to use them?
The process that Andrew Carnegie used to eliminate his competition. It involves owning and controlling every step of production and putting everything in one place.
What is vertical integration?
Among other things, he invented the refrigerated rail car.
Who is Gustavus Swift.