"INDUSTRY ICONS"
The leading developer of the steel industry and hailed Scottish rags-riches story
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Editor of the Atlanta Constitution and advocate for laissez-faire economic structure in the South.
Who is Henry Grady?
Invention from Samuel F.B. Morse that proved to be a radical change in communications
What is the workable telegraph?
Distinct law which limited people from voting unless their grandfathers voted prior to reconstruction.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
Known as the nation's first "Big Business" that quite literally changed time as we know it
What are Railroads?
Creator of Standard Oil trust and popular street name
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Primary provider of tobacco and specialized in mass-scale tobacco production.
Where is Richmond, Virginia?
The man responsible for "lighting up cities" and inventor of the air brake for railroads
Who is George Westinghouse?
Landmark case which showed the Supreme Court's favor towards separated facilities
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
Oil monopoly that would go on to have an A- percent of the oil industry in its control
What is the Standard Oil Trust?
Prominent banker and founder of interlocking directorates with large monopolies.
Who is J. Pierpont Morgan? (JP Morgan)
African American scientist with an estranged fascination of peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
A New Jersey park turned into one of the world's first central scientific research laboratories, would go on to produce electric light
Where is Menlo Park?
Name 3 methods in which African-Americans were discriminated against post-reconstruction?
What are... Literacy tests, poll taxes, lynching mobs, economic disparity, etc.
Choose two of the four corporate organizational strategies and explain them:
Trust
Horizontal integration
Vertical Integration
Holding Companies
Trust: Holds money and assets of various other companies
Horizontal integration: One company takes control of all other companies in a certain industry
Vertical integration: One company takes control of every step in the process of a certain industry
Holding Company: One company that owns and controls various other diversified companies
Yale University professor who didn't quite believe in helping the poor.
Who is William Graham Sumner?
New Democratic politicians in the South who had a very, VERY favorite color.
Who are Redeemers?
Chicago is praised as being the home of the very first of this overgrown building, but only made possible by this particular invention (2 ANSWERS)
What are the Skyscraper and Otis Elevator?
A freed slave who preached the Atlanta Compromise and had a strange association between his people and fingers on a hand.
Creator of the large department store whose name still lives on today
Who is R.H. Macy?
Author of several novels in which a modest man completes a rags-to-riches story and inspires many to be "self-made men"
Who is Horatio Alger Jr.?
Editor of the Memphis Free Speech and previous owner of a printing press.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Primary packer and mass-producer of packaged products that led to the beginning of consumerism today
Who is Gustavus Swift?
1900's African American leader calling for segregation whose first name initials is something a spider might make
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The very first billion dollar company and the largest enterprise in the whole world at the time
What is United States Steel?