A period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing in the late 1800s.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
100
Businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares.
What are corporations?
100
All workers acting collectively, or together-workers had a much greater chance of success in negotiating with management.
What is collective Bargaining?
100
Owning all businesses in a certain field.
What is horizontal integration?
200
This man described himself as a professional inventor.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
Exclusive rights to make or sell inventions.
What is a patent?
200
Ownership of businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process
What is vertical integration?
200
Took place at Carnegie's Homestead Steel Factory in Pennsylvania. Union members there protested a plan to buy new machinery and cut jobs.
What is the Homestead Strike?
200
A law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Movement?
300
This man patented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
This man introduced the Model T in 1908.
Who is Henry Ford?
300
Survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
An Irish immigrant, worked for better conditions for miners.
Who is Mary Joe Harris?
300
The first national labor union, founded in the 1870s.
What is the Knights of Labor?
400
Known as the king of steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
This man proved that it was possible to pump crude oil from the ground.
Who is Edwin L. Drake?
400
Total ownership of a product or service.
What is a monopoly?
400
Someone threw a bomb that wounded many police officers and killed eight. The police fired into the crowd, killing several people and wounding 100 others
What is the Haymarket Riot?
400
This labor union was founded by Samuel Gompers
What is the American Federation of Labor?
500
This individual believed that industries should be owned and managed cooperatively by the workers
Who is Leland Stanford?
500
These brothers built a lightweight airplane that used a small gasoline powered engine.
Who is Wilbur and Orville Wright?
500
Owned Standard Oil Company
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
He encouraged managers to view workers as interchangeable parts of the production process.