The Business of Being Big.
How did people get from NY to CA
Railroads / Trains
Who was the captain of the Shipping & Railroad industry?
Vanderbilt
What is a strike?
An organized refusal to work in order to bring abt changes in a job.
True or false. Child labor ended in 1978
False.
What did a "trap boy" do?
They worked in a dark mine shaft for 12 hours a day.
What did businesses use to advertise?
Who was the captain of the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
What is depression?
An economic period when many people cannot find work, prices drop, and there is very little trade or investment.
Whats a muckraker?
A group of Americans who wanted to.... MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
What were sweatshops?
Where clothes to shoes were made.
Describe mechanization.
The use of machines to replace human or animal labor.
Who was the captain of the Oil industry?
Rockefeller
Whats a labor union?
A group of workers who have banded together to get working conditions improved.
A book that exposes the meat factories.
True or False. Even people with decent jobs felt the negative impact of industrialization?
True.
What did McCormick make?
The automated reaper.
Who was the captain of the Banking industry?
J.P. Morgan
How long did the railroad strike of 1877 last?
45 days.
What is Progressive?
Pushing for change hoping it'll change life.
Where were a lot of people working in the 1800s?
Textile factories
List some of the new inventions around this time.
Cars, Telephones, Light bulbs, and Gramophones.
What is it called when two big companies merge together.
A monopoly
Did unions usually work?
Yes.
What is a reform?
What is the NCLC?
An organization to help end the tragedy young children had been deprived of there childhoods.