“The Expansion of Industry"
Edwin L. Drake
Who was the person that successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
Transcontinental Railroad
On May 10, 1869, the ____________ ____________ came together in Promonotory, Utah and connected the East to the West.
Andrew Carnegie
_____________ started out working on railroads but became fascinated with the Bessemer Process and became a steel Tycoon.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
This group focused on collective bargaining, or negotiation between reps and management to get good wages, hours, and working conditions.
Homestead Act
In 1862, what act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who promised to farm it for five years?
Bessemer Process
The process of injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities is called the __________ ____________.
Transcontinental railroad created 4 ________ zones
Time
Vertical Integration
_________ __________ is a process in which you control all aspects of a corporation such as resources, manufacturing, and distribution.
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
This group, AKA Wobblies, included African Americans and worked to get better work conditions for workers.
Sodbusters
What name was given to the farmers who made their homes from soil, held together by grass roots?
Typewriter
Christopher Sholes invented this contraption that allowed secretaries of companies to not hand write everything.
George M. Pullman
This man created a town for his factory workers (built sleeping cars) that was run very strictly.
Social Darwinism
________ ___________ is the belief that the best people in an industry will pass on their traits, the strong will survive and the weak will stay weak.
Describe the Haymarket Affair.
On the evening of May 4, 1886, 3,000 people gathered at Chicago's Haymarket square to protest police brutality. An unknown person tossed a bomb into the police line. Police fired on the workers, several police officers and workers died. 8 people were convicted; 4 were hanged and 1 committed suicide in prison.
Exodusters
African who moved from post-Reconstruction South to Kansas.
Lightbulb
The invention of the _________ allowed people to work into the evening hours without the use of candles.
Credit Mobilier
In this scandal, stockholders gave this company a contract to lay track at two to three times the actual cost, they then pocketed the profits.
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company, owned by ___________ ___ ___________, gained power by putting his stock owners in a trust, where they would have committees making the financial decisions to gain power of similar companies.
Pullman’s
__________ company went on strike when laborers decided to fight for higher pay. (hint: he was the founder of a town for his workers)
Populism
the movement of the people.
Alexander Graham Bell
The telephone was invented by this man.
The right for the fed. Gov’t to supervise railroad activities
What did the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887 establish?
Robber Barons
Men like Carnegie and Rockefeller were called __________ ________ because they controlled most of the market for their resources by beating other companies into the ground.
Mary Harris Jones (AKA: Mother Jones)
Fought for women’s working rights, and also worked for many other worker’s rights.
Laissez-faire.