Robber Barons
I built the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri.
Andrew Carnegie
I am a hot building in the summer and cold in the winter. People are often working for 12 hours a day in my space.
sweatshop
I invest in a corporation by buying stock and I am a parital owner in the business.
shareholder
I invented the typewriter
Christopher Sholes
I layed the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean.
Cyrus Field
I took total control of the railroad system.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
I am what it is called when kids work in a factory.
child labor
I start businesses to make a profit.
entrepreneur
My factory worked out how to make an assembly line.
Henry Ford
I resulted in 150 deaths because of a fire in a building with locked doors.
Triangle Shirwaist Company fire
I was determined to take Vanderbilt's place as the "King of the Railroad", and I was Carnegie's Mentor.
Tom Scott
I am what it is called when unions represent workers in talkng to management.
collective bargaining
I am a business in which investors own shares.
corporation
I created the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
I developed the first Model T.
Henry Ford
I was the Oil Baron.
John D. Rockefeller
I am an organization of workers who seek better pay and working conditions.
labor unions
I am usually cash money that a shareholder receives from a corporation's profits.
dividends
I created the Phonograph.
Thomas Edison
I am called the "Wizard of Menlo Park"
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie hired me to help run his business. I didn't care who got in my way, I would do what I wanted.
Henry Frick
The age that children were allowed to work in factories based on child labor laws.
12 years old
I am shares of ownership a company sells in its business which often carries voting powers.
stock
I refined the light bulb making the filiment last longer.
Lewis Latimer
I was created by the government to make monopolies and trusts illegal.
Sherman Antitrust Act