America's Wealth Grows
Date that the US became the leading industrialized nation in the world
What is 1900s?
Gustuvus Swift invented this
What is the refrigerated railcar?
An informal agreement to maintain prices at a certain level
What is a pool?
Monotonous work that workers could not take pride in
What is an assembly line?
A wealthy businessman who owned 90% of the oil industry
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
One important natural resource the US had
What is water, timber, coal, iron, copper?
The inventor of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
One person manages another persons property, a way to get around anti-monopoly laws.
What is a trust?
People would join these to collectively negotiate working terms
What is a Union?
The excuse for paying women less during the 2nd Industrial Revolution
What is they were being supported by a man who needed the money more?
In the late 1800s most business leaders believed in this type of economy because it meant no government intervention.
What is laissez-faire?
Thaddeus Lowe invented this
What is the ice machine?
An industry in which one company has complete control or owns the majority of an industry.
What is a monopoly?
A list of union troublemakers
What is a blacklist?
The governments response to union activities like the Pullman Strike and Great Railroad Strike.
What is let it be, laissez-faire, no intervention?
Two major causes of growth in the US
What is large families and flood of immigration?
Inventions like phonograph, electric generator, and batteries were created by this person
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
An organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a single person
What is a corporation?
This group had broad goals that included an 8 hour work day, equal pay for women, abolishing child labor. They accepted anyone.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Three types of women's work in the 1900s
What is domestic servants, teachers/nurses/secretaries/store clerks, and industrial workers?
These are uses for oil.
What is kerosene and gasoline?
This war that created clothing sizes
What is the Civil War?
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices
What is a Robber Baron?
A group that demanded an 8 hour work day, higher wages and better working conditions. Only accepted skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
The idea that all the workers of the world will unite, take over business and government, redistribute the wealth and run the world for the benefit of the working class.
What is Marxism?
Who is Karl Marx?