Inventions
This invention by Alexander Graham Bell allowed businesses to communicate more easily and effectively.
What is the telephone?
This company owner created towns to house workers but it was also a way for the owner to dictate the everyday lives of its workers as well.
Who is George C. Pullman of the Pullman Company?
(Pullman Towns)
These people were unpopular (to say the least) during a strike because they chose to work while the strike was happening.
What is a SCAB or strikebreaker?
This Scottish immigrant believed in hard word and revolutionized business practices with his invention of vertical and horizontal integration.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Vertical and Horizontal integration help create this type of company which were harmful as they controlled the entire market and could then set high prices and low wages.
What is a monopoly?
This invention allowed many manufacturing factories the ability to move away from natural power sources like rivers.
What is electricity?
This type of business employed mostly women and children and was known for particularly harsh conditions.
What are sweatshops?
These types of unions represented skilled workers/tradesmen which specialized in their field.
What are craft unions?
This theory popular among many leading businessmen at the time believed that hard work, competition, and responsibility led to success and that those who were poor were lazy or inferior.
What is Social Darwinism?
This construction company was created by the Union Pacific Railroad Company and it overcharged the government two to three times the actual price while pocketing the profits.
What is Credit Mobilier?
This inventor used a steam engine to drill for oil.
Who is Edwin L. Drake?
People who needed specialized training for their job.
What are skilled workers or trades workers?
Radicals and socialists help start this union to protect industrial workers.
What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (AKA the Wobblies)?
This man established Standard Oil Company and was known for being the first to create Trust Agreements as a way to skit monopoly rules and consolidate more businesses under one company or Trust.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This woman was a union organizer who led a march of 80 children who were severely injured in workplace accidents to see President Roosevelt to protest child labor laws and workplace safety.
Who is Mother Jones or Mary Harris Jones?
This invention by Christopher Sholes led to radical changes in the workplace and efficiency.
What is the typewriter?
This Act was created to protect people especially farmers from railroad company corruptions like high shipping costs and non standardized shipping rates.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This person was known for combining many of the craft unions into one and became the first president of this collective union called the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Both of these individuals are known for being ruthless businessmen and generous philanthropists.
Who are Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller?
This Act was created to break up trusts and monopolies but was later used by many companies successfully against striking workers and unions.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This product allowed for the building of skyscrapers, bridges, and thousands of miles of track and ushered in a new industrial age for America.
What is steel?
This tragedy which killed 146 young girls and women highlighted the dangers of working conditions in the garment industry and led to changes in labor laws for women and children.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This person led the railway union and was known as a more radical leader and socialist.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
This philosophy believed that government should not be allowed to regulate the marketplace and pushed the economic philosophy of "laissez faire" (allow to do)
What is Social Darwinism?
Industrial consolidation and trusts reduced this in the late 1800s.
What is competition?