Inventions
Process of cleaning steel by oxidization. (Blowing air on it)
Bessemer Process
Revolutionized the auto industry with the assembly line.
Henry Ford
Controlled the nation's rail traffic.
Railroad Barons
This became the world's power source once Edwin L. Drake discovered the industry of wells.
Petroleum
Immigrants moved to this area as it became the "Steel City".
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The farthest they ever flew was 852 feet.
The Wright Brothers
Passed to eliminate the growth of monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
People were able to to communicate with each other more efficient because of this invention.
Telegraph
The legal age for children to begin working in the sweatshops.
12
The rise of these allowed for industry to prosper and the need for workers to increase.
Corporations
Known as the Wizard of Menlo Park.
Thomas Edison
These three men were the faces of Monopolies during the late 19th century.
Rockefeller
Vanderbilt
Carnegie
The opportunity to buy into a company in exchange for royalties.
Stock
The first form of Corporations.
The Railroad
This organization represented skilled workers in a large number of trades and crafts.
American Federation of Labor
Connected the U.S. and England together by means of communication.
Samuel Morse
Acquiring companies at all stages of one industry. (Low Risk)
Vertical Integration
These specific cars on the train allowed for more comfortable travel.
George Pullman
Early forms of corporations.
Consolidation
The result of women not being allowed in many unions.
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
Improved brakes for trains and also known for advancing Edison's work into adaptations for electricity.
George Westinghouse
Combining competing companies of the same type into one corporation. (Medium Risk)
Horizontal Integration
Established to help workers who felt that they were treated unfairly and deserved more rights.
Unions
A dangerous beginning to creating something that our country could go to war over.
Violent Protests
Due to this invention some parts of work became obsolete but opened opportunities for different work.
Assembly Lines