Big Business
The rapid growth of factories and production in the late 1800s is called this.
What is industrialization?
This steel industry leader created the Carnegie Steel Company.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
When one company controls an entire industry, it is called this.
What is a monopoly?
: Groups of workers who organize to improve wages and conditions are called this.
What are labor unions?
Many factory workers had to work this many hours per day during the late 1800s.
What is about 10–12 hours?
Large companies that dominated entire industries were known as this.
What are big businesses?
This oil tycoon founded Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Standard Oil became famous for creating this type of business control.
What is a trust?
Workers sometimes stopped working to protest unfair treatment in this action.
What is a strike?
Dangerous machines and poor safety rules often caused these.
What are injuries or accidents?
Railroads were important because they helped transport these two things across the country.
What are goods and people?
This inventor created the electric light bulb and many other inventions.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This law passed in 1890 tried to limit monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This labor union accepted both skilled and unskilled workers.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Many children also worked in factories during this time period.
: What is child labor?
This natural resource was heavily used to power factories and trains.
What is coal?
Carnegie believed wealthy people should use their money to help society, an idea called this.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Monopolies often eliminated this from the market.
What is competition?
This union focused mainly on skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Crowded and unhealthy factory environments often spread this.
What are diseases or illnesses?
The Industrial Revolution helped move many Americans from farms to these places.
What are cities?
Business leaders like Carnegie and Rockefeller were sometimes called this because of their huge wealth and power.
What are captains of industry or robber barons?
Many Americans feared monopolies because they gave companies too much of this.
What is economic power or control?
Labor unions fought for shorter hours, better pay, and safer this.
What are working conditions?
These problems helped push workers to organize unions and protests.
What are poor working conditions?