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This is the process of buying out all of your suppliers to control raw materials and transportation.
Vertical Integration
This is the process of buying out all of his competitors to limit competition.
Horizontal Integration
Chinese immigrant workers Travel Route. (Utah to California)
Central Pacific Railroad
Co-founder of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T)
Alexander Graham Bell
Made his fortune by designing and building sleeper cars. Built a company town near Chicago for his employees.
George Pullman
Irish immigrant workers travel route. (Utah to New York)
Union Pacific Railroad
Who was the first American to successfully drill for oil using a steam engine?
Edwin L. Drake
True or False, “Black Gold” was the nickname given to describe the oil industry throughout the country due to its value and color.
True
What was the name of the first railroad that stretched across the country and opened up the west?
Transcontinental Railroad
What steel making process did Andrew Carnegie bring to America from Sheffield, England?
Bessemer Process
This American inventor is best known for inventing the telephone in 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell
This American inventor is best known for inventing the typewriter in 1867.
Christopher Sholes
Which industry did NOT directly improve due to easier access to steel:
Oil
What was the name of the event in 1911 where a fire broke out in a sweatshop in NYC leading to the death of 146 workers. It resulted in a call for change in working conditions.
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
What was the name of law that made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade and worked to outlaw monopolies?
Sherman Antitrust Act
This American inventor is best known for inventing the lightbulb and making electricity safer and cheaper.
Thomas Edison
What industry did John D. Rockefeller control
Oil
What industry did Cornelius Vanderbilt control?
Railroad
What industry did Andrew Carnegie control?
Steel
What industry did JP Morgan control?
Banks
This is when one person or company controls an entire idustry.
Monopoly
An organization that serves members wages and working conditions
Labor Union
The name given to the 4 men who controlled the main idustries during the Industrial age.
Robber Barons
Where was the meeting point of the Transcontinental Railroad
Promontory Point, Utah
Which Robber Baron was the first Billionaire
John D. Rockefeller