The Second Industrial Revolution
Big Business
Industrial Workers
People
Big Ideas
100
A method for manufacturing steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities.
What is the Bessemer Process?
100
Businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares.
What are corporations?
100
The labor organization that included both skilled and unskilled workers.
What is the Knights of Labor?
100
The brothers who took flight.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
100
Define philanthropy.
What is the active effort to promote human welfare?
200
A period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing in the late 1800's.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
200
The business method Carnegie used to grow his business by owning businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process.
What is vertical integration?
200
All workers acting collectively, or together to increase their chance of success in negotiating with management.
What is collective bargaining?
200
He invented the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
What is Rockefeller's financial control of the government?
300
Exclusive rights to make or sell an invention.
What is a patent?
300
Owning all businesses in a certain field.
What is Horizontal integration?
300
This strike stopped traffic on many railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs.
What is the Pullman Strike?
300
He invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
400
This invention was called the 'talking telegraph'.
What is the telephone?
400
A legal arrangement grouping together a number of companies under a single board of directors.
What is a trust?
400
The strike at Carnegie's Homestead steel factory.
What is the Homestead strike?
400
This man implemented the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
400
This policy attempted to control big business in America.
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
500
Thomas Edison's Menlo Park research facility was sometimes referred to as this type of factory.
What is an invention factory?
500
A view of society based on scientist Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection?
What is social Darwinism?
500
This man campaigned for basic trade-union rights, such as the right to picket and to organize boycotts and strikes.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
500
This businessman made his fortune selling equipment to miners.
Who is Leland Stanford?
500
During this time period, skilled workers were often replaced by unskilled labor.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
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