What did I do?
Samuel Gompers
Founded the AFL, American Federation of Labor, unions
Robber baron, had a monopoly on oil
Rockefeller
Carnegie
robber baron, monopoly on steel
Swift
Robber barons, had a monopoly on the meat industry (packaging, refrigerated cars)
Robber baron, had a monopoly on chocolate
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Thomas Edison
Invented the electric light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera
Henry Ford
Created the Ford Model T car, developed the assembly line
Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
George Eastman
Introduced the first Kodak camera
George Washington Carver
Researched peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans, helped poor Southerners vary their crops and improve their diets
Developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively, led to the development of the Bessemer converter
Henry Bessemer
Armour
Robber barons, had a monopoly on the meat industry (packaging, refrigerated cars)