Matching Terms
The amount of goods and services created in a given period of time.
What is productivity?
Inventor who patented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse?
Act passed by Congress to promote fair industrial competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Labor union that organized only skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Carnegie argued that the success of wealthy industrialists
a. was illegal according to the Sherman Antitrust Act.
b. helped the entire nation.
c. should be limited by the government.
d. had no effect on average Americans.
What is B (helped the entire nation)?
Production in great amounts.
Inventor who developed the idea of a central electric power station.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Americans would not have been able to build the Brooklyn Bridge without it.
What is the Bessemer Process?
political radicals who oppose all government
What are anarchists?
This act against Henry Frick eventually ended the strike at the Carnegie plant in Homestead.
What is an assassination attempt?
Improved the process of making steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Inventor who established the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Company created to build long-distance telephone lines
What is the American Telephone and Telegraph Company?
In the piecework system, laborers who worked fastest and produced the most pieces earned the most ____________________
What is money?
The phrase associated with a positive outlook on the affect of industrialists.
What is Captains of Industry?
People who believed the wealthy were the most fit to succeed (Nature over Nurture).
Who are social darwinists?
Industrialist who established Standard Oil.
Who is John Rockefeller?
workers called in to replace striking workers
What are scabs?
Children often had to go to work in the factory because of ____________________
What are low wages?
A contract signed by new hires that stated they could not join labor unions.
What is a Yellow Dog Contract?
A license to make, use, or sell an invention.
What is a patent?
Industrialist who preached the "Gospel of Wealth".
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
a railroad extending from coast to coast
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The most-skilled and highest-paying jobs in industry went to ____________________
What are men?
The phrase associated with a negative outlook on the affect of industrialists.
What are Robber Barons?