Big Business
What industry did most Entrepreneurs invest in even if it wasn't the industry they began with?
What are Railroads?
What group of people were the primary labor force when building the Railroads
What are Immigrants
or
What are Chinese Immigrants
Who Invented the telephone?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
When laborers group together to stop production or stop work, normally with a list of demands.
What is a Labor Strike
What is Black Gold?
What is Oil?
J.P. Morgan was best known for what industry originally?
What is Banking?
George Pullman was known to control his workers. Along with raising rent he also lowered what?
What is Wages
Who invented the Typewriter?
Who is Christopher Sholes?
The type of union made up of only skilled workers
What is a Craft Union
What is the name of the railroad connecting the United States coast to coast?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
Which of the 4 Big Business men talked about in class did NOT have a rags to riches story?
Who is J.P Morgan?
To laborers and the average citizen people like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, and Vanderbilt are known as what?
What is a Robber Baron
Who used a steam engine to extract oil from the ground?
Who is Edwin L. Drake?
The IWW (Industrial Workers of the World is what type of Unions?
What is a Industrial Union
the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service
What is a Monopoly
A businessman who owns a bank, buying up all the banks in the area is an example of what type of integration?
What is Horizontal?
As factories were created and agriculture needed less labor in the country, where did most people move?
What is cities?
What is the process that turned iron to steel more efficiently?
What is the Bessemer Process
was a leader against child labor, supported the Great Strike of 1877, and one of the most prominent organizers in the women's labor movement.
Who is Mary Harris Jones or Mother Jones
The first time the government regulated a specific industry.
What was the Interstate Commerce Act
an economic and social philosophy supposedly based on the biologist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection holding that system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism
Name 3 issues Laborers faced during Industrialization.
What is
low wages, unsafe working conditions, child labor, no worker's comp, long hours
After a new process for creating steel more efficiently was created, what important transportation system switched from using iron to steel?
What is railroads?
Who ended the Great Strike of 1877?
What is Federal Troops?
Who led the Cigar Makers' International Union?
Who is Samuel Gompers?