Inventions
Thomas Edison was the inventor of...
What was the lightbulb?
A railroad that crosses the entire country
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Inventor of the sleeping car
Who is George M. Pullman?
Two types of economic integration
What is vertical and horizontal integration?
An early labor union formed in 1866.
What is National Labor Union?
Christopher Sholes is the inventor of...
What was the typewriter
Complete control over an industry's production, wages, and prices
What is monopoly?
Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Theory that taught only the strong survived
What is social Darwinism (survival of the fittest)?
Negotiations between labor and management to win higher wages and shorter workweeks.
What is Collective bargaining?
Alexander Graham is the inventor of...
What was the telephone?
Negotiations between labor and management to win higher wages and shorter workweeks
What is collective bargaining?
Banker who made his money by taking over and merging other businesses
Who is J.P Morgan?
The four time zones
What is Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific?
Workers for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad went out on strike over reduced wages.
What is The Great Strike of 1877?
Lewis H. Latimer is the inventor of...
What was the carbon filament?
Group of businesses owned by competing companies that is controlled by a single group of trustees
What is trust?
Head of the standard oil company
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Court case that gave government right to regulate private industry
What is Munn v. Illinois?
A tragedy that occurred in 1911.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire?
George M. Pullman is the inventor of...
What was the sleeping car?
Capitalism that allows companies to conduct business without government intervention
What is laissez-faire?
Organizer for the united mind workers
Who is Mary Harris?
Name of company involved in stealing of railroad money
What is Credit Mobilier?
A federal law courts tried using to help government management.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?