Inventors and Innovators
Created the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This process was used to create steel during the Age of Industrialization.
What is the Bessmer Process?
This man created the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
The process of a company increasing the production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain.
What is horizontal integration?
This new innovation was aimed at connecting the country from sea to shining to sea.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This new metal was used to create new taller skyscrapers.
What is steel?
This 1882 Act prohibited Chinese immigrants from entering America.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This organization was created to provide workers with opportunities to fight against unfair labor practices.
What are labor unions?
This man owned the Standard Oil Corp.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
Who is Elias Howe?
Immigrants from both Europe and Asia came to America, through these ports.
What are Ellis and Angel Island?
Workers completed these long workdays for this inadequate pay.
What is 10hr-14hr work days?
What is $3 to $12?
This man was a ruthless business owner in charge of the largest Railroad corporation in America.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The Transcontinental Railroad was to be built from these points.
What is Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California?
Created the phonograph and even motion picture.
Who is Thomas Edison?
American people have the freedom to buy what they want, work where they want, and make what they want.
What is the Free Enterprise System?
This labor union was comprised of skilled and unskilled workers.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
This 1890 bill was aimed at stopping monopolies and trusts from engaging in unfair practices and attempted to prevent unfair competitive advantages.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890?
These four races/categories of people worked on the creation of the railroad.
Who are Civil War Vets, free African Americans, Irishmen, and the Chinese?
Oil was often converted into another liquid which was used for lighting.
What is kerosene?
This new change to the American economy allowed producers to ship their goods across America at cheaper rates since the country was linked together through phones, railroads, and canals.
What is the national market?
The incident left 140+ people dead after a fire where the owners did not have the building up to date.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
This 1887 act prohibited unfair practices by railroads, while also creating this organization.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act and the Interstate Commerce Commission?
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