“The Expansion of Industry"
Who was the person that successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
Edwin L. Drake
On May 10, 1869, the ____________ ____________ came together in Promontory, Utah and connected the East to the West.
Transcontinental Railroad
_____________ started out working on railroads but became fascinated with the Bessemer Process and became a steel Tycoon.
Andrew Carnegie
This group focused on collective bargaining, or negotiation between reps and management to get good wages, hours, and working conditions.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
In 1862, what act promised 160 acres of land to anyone who promised to farm it for five years?
Homestead Act
The process of injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities is called the __________ ____________.
Bessemer Process
Before standard time zones, how was time calculated in the United States?
By the Position of the Sun
_________ __________ is a process in which you control all aspects of a corporation such as resources, manufacturing, and distribution.
Vertical Integration
This group, AKA Wobblies, included African Americans and worked to get better work conditions for workers.
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
What name was given to the farmers who made their homes from soil, held together by grass roots?
Sodbusters
Christopher Sholes invented this contraption that allowed secretaries of companies to not hand write everything.
Typewriter
This man created a town for his factory workers (built sleeping cars) that was run very strictly.
George M. Pullman
________ ___________ 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.
Social Darwinism
Describe the Haymarket Affair.
Answers will vary
What caused the price of wheat to drop from $1.19 a bushel in 1881 to just $.49 cents in 1884… an increase in supply or an increase in demand?
Supply
The invention of the _________ allowed people to work into the evening hours without the use of candles.
Lightbulb
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.
Credit Mobilier
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.
John D. Rockefeller
__________ company went on strike when laborers decided to fight for higher pay. (hint: he was the founder of a town for his workers)
Pullman’s
What was a problem from “Mother Nature” that the farmers on the plains had to deal with?
Drought; Too much rain; Grass fires; Blizzards
The telephone was invented by this man.
Alexander Graham Bell
What did the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887 establish?
The right for the fed. Gov’t to supervise railroad activities
Men like Carnegie and Rockefeller were called __________ ________ because they controlled most of the market for their resources by beating other companies into the ground.
Robber Barons
Fought for women’s working rights, and also worked for many other worker’s rights.
Mary Harris Jones (AKA: Mother Jones)
What was another problem from “Mother Nature” that the farmers on the plains had to deal with?
Drought; Too much rain; Grass fires; Blizzards