Vocabulary
RailRoad Lead the Way
Inventions
An Age of Big Business
Industrial Workers
100
What is pool?
a group sharing in some activity
100
Who mostly built the railroads
Immigrants or Irish & Chinese
100
Who inctroducied the telegraph in1844
Samual Morse
100
who was the most famous figure of the oil industry
John D. Rockefeller
100
Industrial growth of the late ____created new jobs
1880's
200
Who is a powerful & aggresive businessmen who controlled the nations railroad
Railroad baron
200
What where some of the songs they sang while they worked
"John Henry" & "I've been working on the railroad"
200
who developed a device that transmitted speech
Alex Graham Bell
200
who thought that they could find petroleum in well
Edwin L. Drake
200
Who much money would a worker make in a week
$3-$12
300
a system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as items pass before him or her
assembly line
300
What are some of the raw meterials the trains carried
iron,coal,ore,coal,and timber
300
Who invented a small camera box camera the kodak
George Eastman
300
what did rockefeller set up to do
dominate the oil industry
300
who was the leader when the knights of labor become a national labor organisation in the 1880's
Terrence V. Powderly
400
what is a share holder
person who invests in a corporation by buying stock and is a partial owner
400
Large railroad companies did what to smaller railroad companies
Drove them out of business or consolidation
400
Who developed a vacuum cleaner in 1889 that simplyfied house work
John Thurman
400
what is the Sherman antitrust act
prohibited trusts and monopolies.
400
who was the american federation of labor led by
samuel gompers
500
discussion between an employer and union representatives of workers over wages is what
collective bargaining
500
who created a deviser air, breaks that improved the system for stopping a train
George Westinghouse
500
Who developed and bulit transfromers that could send electricty power more cheaply over long distance
George Westinghouse
500
what does the term capital also mean
money for investment
500
Industrial Rew. Caused an increase in what?
Demand for labor
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