Captains of Industry/ Robber Barons
John D. Rockefeller is associated with which industry?
Oil
This is the distance between railroad tracks.
Gauge
The person credited with the invention of the light bulb is:
Thomas Edison
Describe a strike.
Workers stop work to bargain with managers and owners.
This was the main goal of political machines in the late 1800's
During the late 1800's the apparent prosperity of America with underlying political corruption and poverty lead Mark Twain to label this time the "____ age"
The Gilded Age
What problems did Cornelius Vanderbilt solve when he bought smaller railroad companies?
He connected the tracks and standardized the gauge.
Something that gives you the right to make and sell a product is called a:
Patent
Name three main goals of early American Labor unions:
Shorter working hours, higher wages, and safer working conditions.
During American industrialization the gap between rich and poor:
Name a time that Andrew Carnegie shifted his business focus:
When he shifted from iron bridge production to steel production.
When he shifted from steel rail production to steel beams for sky-scrapers
By allowing more businesses to compete the American ________ _______ was expanded
Market Economy
The inventor of the Telephone was:
Alexander Graham Bell
The American Federation of Labor was founded by:
Samuel Gompers
Another word for shares of ownership is:
Stock
Name four of Andrew Carnegie's jobs.
Bobbin boy, telegraph operator, booking, and steel industry executive.
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company demanded that railroads returned a portion of their shipping costs. This now illegal practice is called:
Rebates
The flow of this river was reversed to avoid sewage seeping into the drinking water.
Chicago River
William Tweed was:
A New York City political boss
How did American cities change after new forms of transportation were invented?
They were able to expand outward because people could travel further than they could walk
J.P. Morgan is associated with which industry?
Banking
This was the name of Vanderbilt's railroad which connected New York and Chicago:
The New York Central
A device that showed information about stock prices was called the:
Name the New York City Political Machine which we discussed.
Tammany Hall
This is a combination of corporations created to reduce Competition and control prices:
A trust