He founded a University in Tenn. He was a big man with little education but he established a shipping-land transit across Nicaragua after the gold rush. He built a railway that connected New York to Chicago in 1873
What is Cornelius Vanderbilt
100
A coalition made of skilled workers, unskilled workers, and farmers to push toward social reforms.
What is National Labor Union
100
deaf invented the phonograph and by 1900 it was used in over 150,000 homes
What is Thomas Alva Edison
100
steel king; integrated every phase of his steel-making operation.
What is Andrew Carnegie
100
A new process for the manufacturing of steel. This process was developed by British native Henry Bessemer. This new technique in the manufacturing of steel helped make harder steel and it improved the quality.
What is Bessemer Process
200
was a man who started from meager beginnings and eventually created an oil empire. In Ohio in 1870 he organized the Standard Oil Company.
What is John D. Rockefeller
200
is responsible for the formation of one of the first labor unions. The American Federation of Labor worked on getting people better hours and better wages
What is Samuel Gompers
200
It was pioneered by tycoon Andrew Carnegie. It is when you combine into one organization all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing.
What is Vertical Integration
200
is an act of joining or consolidating with ones competitors to create a monopoly. Rockefeller was excellent with using this technique to monopolize certain markets.
What is Horizontal integration
200
He was a banker who financed the reorganization of railroads, insurance companies, and banks. He bought out Carnegie and in 1901 he started the United States Steel Corporation.
What is J. Pierpont Morgan
300
is an economic tool devised late in the 1800′s. It was pioneered by men such as Andrew Carnegie of the steel industry and John Rockefeller of the oil industry. The purpose is to eliminate competition in business
What is trust
300
was a railroad that began in Sacramento and met the Union Pacific Railroad in Ogden, Utah. It traveled through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and was completed in 1869.
What is Central Pacific Railroad
300
After the Munn vs Illinois decision states had the power to regulate the RRs within their borders. The RRs fought back, and the Wabash Case it was ruled that only the federal government could regulate RRs (interstate commerce).
What is Wabash Case
300
a secret society with a private ritual, password, and a special handshake.it would forestall possible reprisals by employers
What is Knights of labor
300
He was a successful railroad builder, and was considered as the best. In the 1890′s he created the Great Northern, which ran from Deluth to Seattle. He knew that the success of the railroad would depend on the prosperity of those who used it. His enterprise was so financially secure, that when financial storms came his enterprise was not fazed.
What is James Hill
400
it was a bloody incident that killed many by dynamite
What is Haymarket Square
400
forbade combinations in restraint of trade, without any distinction.
What is Sherman anti-trust act
400
argued that individuals won their stations in life by competing on the basis of their natural talents
What is social Darwinist
400
sought to eliminate the middlemen and squeeze out competitors
What is standard oil company
400
established itself on solid but narrow foundations,
since it tried to speak for all workers but fell far short of that. Composed of skilled laborers, it was willing to let unskilled laborers fend for themselves. Critics called it “the labor
trust.”
What is AF of L
500
prohibited rates and pools and required the railroads to publish their rates openly
What is interstate commerce act
500
all union labor
What is closed shop
500
in which railroad companies grossly over-inflated the
worth of their stock and sold them at huge profit
What is Stock Watering
500
a German-born Democrat was elected
governor of Illinois and pardoned the three survivors after studying the case extensively. He received violent verbal abuse for that and was defeated during re-election
What is John P. Altgeld
500
was an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone