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?
Gustavus Swift invented this so that meat and other food could be transported across the country without spoiling.
What is the Refrigerated Train Car?
This was Andrew Carnegie's home country.
What is Scotland?
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 in mass quantities. Andrew Carnegie started to make a lot of it and he got filthy rich.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This was the bridge that Vanderbilt closed in order to take over other railroad companies.
What is the Albany Bridge?
The government law that was mean to breakup the monopolies set up by the robber barons.
What is The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
This is how Vanderbilt put other railroad companies out of business
Offering big discounts to customers by lowering his prices.
The Homestead Strike occurred at one of Carnegie's steel plants. This is why the workers were on strike.
Low pay, dangerous work conditions, attempting to form a union.
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?
These two rich industrialists made a deal to ship oil throughout the country on the railroad.
Who are Rockefeller and Vanderbilt?
This was the name of the photographer who took pictures of children in dangerous working conditions.
Who is Lewis Hine?
This is why the railroad industry collapsed in the late 1800s.
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?
He invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?