Second Industrial Revolution
This transportation network connected distant regions, encouraged urban growth, and helped create a national market.
The Railroads
John D. Rockfeller built a monopoly in this industry.
Oil
This innovative process made steel cheaper and easier to produce helping fuel industrial growth
The Bessemer Process for making steel
This organization focused primarily on skilled workers and used collective bargaining to improve wages and working conditions.
The American Federation of Labor
As America industrialized, workers moved from farms to these rapidly growing population centers.
Cities
The Second Industrial Revolution focused on steel, oil, electricity, and this transportation industry that connected the nation.
The Railroads
This 1890 law was designed to prevent monopolies and restrain unfair business practices
The Sherman Antitrust Act
This African American entrepreneur became famous for developing hair-care and cosmetic products
Madam CJ Walker
This labor organization accepted both skilled and unskilled workers and advocated broad social reforms.
The Knights of Labor
This economic system is based on private ownership and competition for profit.
Capitalism
Unlike the First Industrial Revolution, this major energy source became central to communication and industry during the second Industrial Revolution
Electricity
A company that dominates an entire industry and limits competition is know as this...
A Monopoly
This inventor and innovator is famously known for the electric lightbulb
Thomas Edison
This 1886 labor event hurt public support for unions after a bomb exploded during a workers' rally.
The Haymarket Riot (Haymarket Affair)
Socialists and communists generally agreed with this criticism of capitalism.
Unregulated capitalism exploits workers
Outpacing the technological progress of the First Industrial Revolution, the Second industrial Revolution granted 221,000 of _________ to protect inventors' discovery and trade rights to their products.
Patents
Between 1840-1850, there were 6,480 U.S. Patents, compared to 40 years later with 221,000 Patents issued
Supporters of this idea argued that successful businesses deserved their wealthy because competition natural favored the strongest
Social Darwinism
This inventor worked with audio transmitting to create the first telephone
Alexander G. Bell
This major strike at Andrew Carnegie's steel plant ended in a significant defeat for organized labor.
The Homestead Strike
This Florida entrepreneur developed the Florida East Coast Railroad and helped stimulate tourism and economic growth.
Henery Flagler
This economic consequence of industrialization allowed goods to be bought and sold across the United States more easily than ever before
The Rise of the National Market
This business organization used a trust agreement in 1882 and became a symbol of monopoly power
The Standard Oil Company -- Owned by John D. Rockefeller
This inventor is credited for creating the Air-Cooling System (A/C)
Federal troops were used to break up this 1894 railroad strike led by workers protesting wage cuts.
Pullman Strike
The Florida East Coast Railroad most directly contributed to Florida's growth by doing this.
Transporting people and goods to new areas of Florida?