Railroads Spur Industry
In 1886 southern railroads decided to change this in order to form a network with the north.
What is gauges?
Type of new building, built with the steel girders.
What is "skyscrapers"?
British queen who sent the first transatlantic telegram message.
Who was Queen Victoria?
Name for workers brought into work during a strike.
What are strikebreakers?
Meaning to combine.
What is consolidate?
At the time of his death he own over 4,500 miles of railroad track.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Wrote the "Gospel of Wealth".
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Inventor of the telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
At a protest of McCormick workers, a bomb exploded.
What was the Haymarket Riot?
A new way to make stronger and less expensive steel.
What is the Bessemer process?
Rail lines often gave secret discounts to important customers.
What are rebates?
Type of business owned by investors.
What is a corporation?
Inventor of the sleeping car.
Who was George Pullman?
Most famous woman labor organizer was known by this nickname.
All the steps used to change raw materials into finished products.
What is vertical integration?
When railroad companies fix prices and divide up regions for business.
What are pools?
Head of the first American Company, United States Steel Company, worth over $1 billion.
Who was J.P. Morgan?
Built the first power plant in New York City.
Who was Thomas Edison?
In 1894 a Chicago court used this law to jail union leaders.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
A license for new inventions.
What is a patent?
This rail line was built without money from Congress, by a Canadian.
What was the Great Northern by James Hill?
His trust controlled 95% of oil refining in the U.S.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
Henry Ford used this innovation to manufacture cars more quickly and cheaply.
What is mass production?
Leader of the American Federation of Labor.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
People who oppose all forms of organized government.
What are anarchists?