Inventors & Inventions
Big Business
Government Policies
Business Strategies
The Labor Movement
100
created code to be used with telegraph, improving nation's communication system
Who is Samuel Morse?
100
business tycoon who used horizontal and vertical integration to monopolize the oil industry
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
100
taxes that make imported goods cost more than those made locally
What are protective tariffs?
100
companies assign their stock to a board of trustees who combine them into a new organization
What is a trust?
100
factory workers toiled long hours in these small, hot, dark, and dirty workhouses
What are sweatshops?
200
developed a process for purifying iron, resulting in strong, but lightweight steel
Who is Henry Bessemer?
200
business tycoon who used vertical integration to establish a monopoly over the steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
government policy which allows businesses to operate under minimal government regulation
What is laissez-faire?
200
complete control of a product or service
What is a monopoly?
200
term for negotiating as a group for higher wages or better working conditions
What is collective bargaining?
300
invented the light bulb, helping to develop affordable lighting for homes and businesses
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
financial tycoon and financial powerhouse who later bought U.S. Steel from Andrew Carnegie
Who is J.P. Morgan?
300
passed in 1887 by the U.S. Senate to oversee railroad operations
What is the Interstate Commerce Comission (ICC)?
300
consolidating many firms in the same business
What is horizontal integration?
300
economic and political philosophy favoring public, instead of private, control of property and income
What is socialism?
400
patented air brakes for trains in 1869
Who is George Westinghouse?
400
name given to wealthy individual(s) who donate money to charitable organizations and public institutions
What is a philanthropist?
400
1890 Congressional act which outlawed any trust that operated "in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states."
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
gaining control of the many different businesses that make up all phases of a product's development
What is vertical integration?
400
1869 Union that functioned as a secret society, devoted to broad social reform such as replacing capitalism with workers' cooperatives
What is the Knights of Labor?
500
invented wireless telegraph
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
500
nickname given to wealthy industrialists because of their capacity to swindle the poor and establish monopolies through illegal means
What is a "robber baron"?
500
In order to protect natural resources being depleted as a result of rapid industrialization, Congress passed this in the late 1800s
What is the National Parks Service?
500
belief held by some in the late 19th century that certain people in business/society were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over them
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Major 1892 strike against Carnegie's steel works in Pennsylvania
What is the Homestead Strike?
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