Inventor of the lightbulb, held over 1,000 patents
Thomas Edison
100
The process of turning iron to flexible steel
Bessemer Process
100
When one company controls the entire market of a product
Monopoly
100
To negotiate better hours or wages as a group
Collective Bargaining
200
Inventor of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
200
What two inventions did the Bessemer Process lead to?
Skyscrapers and suspension bridges
200
When all companies get together and agree on a price of a good
Cartel
200
First Labor union, had over 700,000 members, allowed women and African Americans to join?
Knights of Labor
300
Inventor of the Telegraph
Samuel Morse
300
The United States had more ___________ than the rest of the world, which allowed them to easily move supplies around to country and to ports for shipment
Railroads
300
Factories where people worked long hours for little pay were known as?
Sweatshops
300
Union group that did not allow women and discouraged minorities from joining
AFL
400
Owned nearly all of the oil supply in the US during this time
John D. Rockefeller
400
What 3 resources or inventions, did the US have that turned them into the greatest power in the world
Electricity, Iron (steel), Oil
400
Residential area where Companies owned the homes, stores of the area were called
Company Towns
400
Riot in Chicago, where protestors killed a policemen and threw a bomb. Ended the knights of Labor
Haymarket Square
500
Steel Tycoon, owning nearly all of its production in the US
Andrew Carnegie
500
System developed during the time where machines replaced hand tools to produce goods.
Mass production
500
A large business that has many owners
Corporation
500
Strike as a result of economic depression for steel workers and miners