Innovations
Invented a superheated core of metal surrounded by glass to produce photons
Who is Thomas Edison?
Economic policy meaning hands free, allowing for the proliferation of trusts
What is Laissez-faire economics?
Robber Barron who used the Bessemer process and horizontal integrations in steel
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This organization advocated for widespread social change and was led by Terrence V. Powderly
What is the Knights of Labor
This newfangled business provided many types of goods all under one roof
What are department stores?
A system that moves products along across a line
What is an assembly line?
This act was intended to fight big business and corporations
What is the Sherman antitrust act?
Muckraker who exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry
Who was Upton Sinclair
A violent clash between unionized steelworkers and armed men hired by Carnegie Steel
What was the homestead strike?
These laws appealed to farmers by prohibiting railroad rate discrimination
What were Granger Laws?
Strategy where a business takes over multiple stages in the supply chain
What is vertical integration?
Gave 160 acres to families with the promise that they would have 5 years of continued residence on said land
What was the Homestead act?
Labor organizer that founded the AFL
What were the Knights of Labour?
Gathering of the Knights of Labor where someone threw a bomb into the meeting, turning violent
What was the Haymarket riot?
this popular drink was invented in this time as a medicine
What is Coca-cola?
American newspapers that exaggerated stories
This amendment assured Cuba that the US wouldn’t invade it
What was the Teller amendment?
Who were the Native American leaders in the Great Sioux War?
Who were Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull?
The first railway strike across multiple states
What was the Great Railway Strike of 1877?
This popular American past time had it’s first professional league in this period
What is Baseball?
The system where ballots were marked privately which allowed people to easily switch parties
What was the Australian ballot?
These constitutional amendments were passed in this period
What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
Name at least 3 African American leaders and what they did
Booker T. Washington, Ida B Wells, Frederick Douglass
Founded the American Railway Union?
Who was Eugene V Debs?
This extremely poisonous substance was commonly used in medicine in this period
What is Mercury/Lead?