a guarantee to protect an investor's right to make, use, or sell his or her invention
What is a patent
100
Wealthy industrialist who made his money in steel. Believed the rich had a responsibility to give some of their wealth away before they died.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
100
popularized the idea of communism
Who is Karl Marx
100
when you raise money by selling partial ownership and receive
What is corporations
100
Invented the first airplane from a bicycle
who are Orville and Wilbur Wright
200
a group of companies that turn control over to a common board that runs the companies as a single corporation
What is a trust
200
The "most dangerous woman in America" who organized workers to be educated and work together
Who is Mary Harris Jones
200
created the compressed air break - train safety
Who is George Westinghouse
200
the theory that the "fittest" people, businesses, or nations would succeed, while the "unfit" would fail
What is Social Darwinism
200
Went into the "invention business" by opening a laboratory and doing research
Who is Thomas Edison
300
a means of business expansion in which one company controls all other companies producing the same product
What is horizontal integration
300
Son of runaway slaves who made a major contribution to the industrial use of oil by inventing a lubricating cup that fed oil into the parts of a machine while it was running
Who is Elijah McCoy
300
Created more comfortable railroad cars
Who is George Pullman
300
Year of labor unrest
the Great Upheaval
300
The spread of the telephone required ________, thus providing many new jobs for women
What is operators
400
a method of steel making that burned of the impurities - made steel faster and cheaper to produce
What is the Bessemer process
400
Early pioneer in the RR industry who extended his rr system by buying small lines and combining them
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
400
Built a whole town outside of his company where people could live - but they had to live by his rules.
Who is George Pullman
400
A trust may become a monopoly if it
gains control of an industry.
400
In the late 1800's a second industrial growth was spurred by developments in (which 2 industries)
steel and oil
500
a method of reducing production costs by acquiring companies that provide services and materials upon which your enterprise depends
What is vertical integration?
500
Head of the American Railway Union who supported strikers by urging other union workers to boycott trains with Pullman cars
Who is Eugene V. Debs
500
Founder of Standard Oil Company - tough business practices
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
One of the earliest national unions; formed by a group of garment workers
What is Knights of Labor
500
the development of the "horseless carriage" was spurred by the growth in what industry?