Railroads
What are air brakes?
This invention helped communicate through wires and a code
What is the telegraph?
Who was Bell?
In the 1890's, children as young as this worked in factories
What is 6?
This man started U.S. Steel
Who was Carnegie?
What are time zones?
This was the first phone company
What was AT&T?
This man made a code to communicate from city to city
Who is Morse?
Before reform, many people would work this many hours a day
What is 14?
Having complete control of a product or service is known as this
What is a Monopoly?
What is the transcontinental railroad?
More common name for phonograph
What is a record player?
He patented the first incandescent light bulb
Who was Edison?
This idea of distribution of wealth came about during this time
What is Socialism?
This man started Standard Oil
Who was Rockefeller?
This railroad tycoon drove the last spike in Utah
Who is Stanford?
This was the first electric company
What was General Electric?
This man, who had a company named for him, patented the transformer for electricity.
Who was Westinghouse?
This was the main labor union
What are the AFL?
These people made millions while they paid low wages and had bad working conditions for their employees
Who were the Robber Barons?
This is the distance between the tracks on a railroad
What is guage?
This was the world's first steel wire suspension bridge
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
He invented a new process for making steel
Who was Bessemer?
Term for two sides negotiating working conditions
What is collective bargaining?
These people pushed the nation forward in industry, donated millions to charities, and created 1000's of jobs
Who were Captains of Industry?