Little to NO government regulation of Business
Laissez Faire
Invented the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
This system of government has a free market
Capitalism
Urbanization
President during the Progressive Era was known as the "Trustbuster"
Teddy Roosevelt
Reduced the cost of steel making it less expensive and easier to produce
This invention allowed an increase in productivity and longer/safer working conditions
Light Bulb
Labor Strike at Carnegie's Steel Plant that killed 16 people
Homestead Strike
These immigrants were processed on Angel Island and later banned from the United States to "Protect" American jobs
Asian Immigrants
Provided services to the poor and immigrant communities in the cities
Settlement Houses
Control of ALL levels of Production
Vertical Integration
Oil Barron- "Standard Oil" used Horizontal Integration to create trusts & monopolies of the Oil Industry
John Rockefeller
This system of government workers have some control with the government has the other
Socialism
These corrupt officials promised jobs and citizenship to their communities in exchange for votes and kickbacks
Political Machines
19th Amendment
Control of competing companies in the same industry
Horizontal Integration
Steel Barron used the vertical integration to control the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
This labor strike stopped Railroad movement
Pullman Strike
European Immigrants
Her book exposed the monopoly of Rockefeller's Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell
Mass Production, Steel, Oil, and Electricity. Railroads expand
Second Industrial Revolution
Incented the Multiplex Telegraph for trains
Granville Woods
Leader of the American Railway Union who is arrested for the Pullman strike and becomes a socialist
Eugene Debs.
This tragedy revealed the unsafe conditions of factories and led safety reforms
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
This book the "The Jungle" exposed the dangerous and disgusting conditions of the Meat Packing Industry
Upton Sinclair