Industrial Revolution
Between 1760-1840 there was a rapid change in ways things were made?
Industrial Revolution
True or False?
Children had to work in factories and made less money than adults?
True
He wanted to keep steel at the lowest possible price?
Andrew Carnegie
Why was Pittsburg, PA a perfect place for industrial location?
Big Rivers
By what year did the US produce more steel than any other country in the world?
A. 1999 B. 1900
C. 1920 D. 1910
1900
How much money did workers make if they worked 12 hour shifts for 7 days a week?
10 dollars
Built the first oil refinery in Cleveland, Ohio in 1863. He became a millionaire.
John Rockefeller
Carnegie became the richest man in the world and sold his company to who?
JP Morgan
By 1880 Rockefeller controlled 90% of the what business?
oil
Factory workers worked how long during the day during the industrial revolution?
A. 7 B. 10
C. 12 D. 9
12 hours
Who created a new way to deliver electricity to business and homes. He made AC power!
George Westinghouse
10-20 cents a day
How did Andrew Carnegie produced steel at a low cost? What two things?
Bought coal mines
Bought ships and railroads
The kind of factories where women workers made clothes and made less money than men?
Sweatshops
Thought of a new way to compete in newspaper business by doing big eye catching headlines?
William Randolph Hearst
True or False?
Labor Unions formed to improve working conditions during the Industrial Revolution?
True
What building was built in 1890 in New York City after a famous Steel producer?
Andrew Carnegie
The worst sweatshop disaster and the building burned?
Triangle Shirtwaist Co.
First African American Millionaire who bottled shampoo and went door to door to sell them?
CJ Walker
What was the effect of the Newsies strike of 1899?
Sales dropped