Railroads
Large railroad companies offered this to their biggest customers.
What are rebates?
Telephone/telegraph improved this over distances and helped unify the Union.
What is communication?
A group of companies managed by a single board of traders.
What is a Trust?
Unions represented workers by talking with management.
What is collective bargining?
General working conditions in factories during the late 1800's and early 1900's.
What is noisy, unhealthy and unsafe?
This allowed American industry to expand into the Western part of the country.
What are railroads?
He invented the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Andrew Carnegie's steel company became powerful through this strategy.
What is vertical integration?
A court order to stop a labor union from striking.
What is an injunction?
This accident was common with steel workers.
What are burns from spill and hot steel?
Work song that RR workers sang as they built the tracks.
What is "John Henry"?
This connected the United States with Europe for the first time in 1866.
What is the transatlantic telegraph cable?
Cash payments from corporation's profits.
What are dividends?
U.S. Attorney General Richard Olney ordered an injunction to do this.
What is stop the Pullman strike?
These accidents was common with coal miners.
What are death by cave ins, and effects of coal dust and gas on the lungs?
Railroad barons were created by doing this.
What is consolidating many small companies?
Three industries that grew as a demand for their products by the railroads.
What are steel, lumber and coal?
Total control of an industry by a single producer.
What is a monopoly?
Workers went on strike against the Pullman company for this reason.
What is because the company reduced their wages?
This was an on the job hazard for textile workers.
What is lung damage by airborne lint?
Term used to mean combining two or more companies into one.
What is a merger?
He was president of the USA when the Wright brothers flew the first motorized airplane.
Who is Roosevelt? 1903
People who buy stock in a corporation.
What are shareholders?
During the Pullman strike the workers asked for these two things.
What are increased wages and profit sharing?
Garment workers toiled in factories called sweatshops. These are two dangers they faced.
What are poor eyesight because of long hours with little lighting and being trapped in by a fire?