Inventions
Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
: Dominated the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
A business owned by shareholders
Corporation
Andrew Carnegie’s product
Steel
Settlement houses helped who?
Immigrants
Perfected the light bulb
Thomas Edison
Known for oil monopoly
John D. Rockefeller
Complete control of an industry
Monopoly
John D. Rockefeller’s company
Standard Oil
This journalist wrote How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
This invention sped up writing in offices
Typewriter
Banker who financed railroads & U.S. Steel
J.P. Morgan
Group of companies under one board
Trust
Strong bridges and skyscrapers were possible because of this
Steel (Bessemer Process)
Nickname for unsafe apartments where immigrants lived
Tenements
The Bessemer Process made this material cheap and strong
Steel
Dominated railroads and shipping
Cornelius Vanderbilt
A legal right to an invention
Patent
This was the first billion-dollar company, formed by J.P. Morgan
U.S. Steel
Movement applying Christian values to social problems
Social Gospel
Nikola Tesla promoted this kind of electricity
Alternating Current (AC)
These leaders were called this positive nickname when they donated to society
Captains of Industry
Term for ruthless business leaders
Robber Barons
Oil was often called this in the Gilded Age
Black Gold
Law passed in 1890 to limit trusts
Sherman Antitrust Act