Invented light bulb, and established the first research lab in Menlo park, NJ
Thomas Edison
100
An alliance of trade and craft unions formed in 1886
American Federation of Labor
100
complete control over company production, wages, and prices
Monopolies
100
Economic and social falsify based on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution on natural selection
Social Darwinism
200
American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation
J.P Morgan
200
Invented the telephone in 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
200
Negotiation between employers and an organized group of employees on conditions of employment such as wages or hours
Collective Bargaining
200
form of capitalism that allows companies to conduct business without intervention by government
Laissez-faire
200
A company taker over suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain total control over quality and cost of product
Vertical integration
300
He formed trusts
John D Rockefeller
300
Invented the typewriter
Christopher Sholes
300
American Labor Union leader
Samuel Gompers
300
An 1877 case in which the supreme court upheld states regulation of railroads for the benefit of farmers and consumers thus establishing the right of government to regulate private industry to serve the public interests
Munn vs. Illinois
300
Merging of companies that make similar products
Horizontal integration
400
Most prominent organizer in the woman labor movement
Marry Harris Jones
400
Joined local union eventually becoming its president and would grow up to become key figure in labor movement dedicating his life for working Americans
Samuel Gompers
400
attempted to form the American Railway Union (ARU)
Eugene vs. Debbs
400
A construction company formed in 1864 by owners of union pacific railroad who used it to fraudulently skim of rail road profits for themselves
Credit Mobilier
400
A railroad line linking the atlantic and pacific coast of the United states completed in 1869
Transcontinental railroad
500
Private secretary to local superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroad
Andrew Carnegie
500
Who was the 32 President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
500
Labor organization for unskilled workers formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists
Industrial workers of the world (IWW)
500
Business organization in which competing companies are under the control of a single group of trusties
Trusts
500
A law enacted in 1890 that was intended to prevent creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfere with free trade