Inventions
Created a way to get electricity into homes and businesses
Who was Thomas Edison?
What was the purpose of unions during this age?
To improve working conditions, better pay, etc.
What type of labor was mostly used to complete the transcontinental railroad?
Immigrant labor
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists and captains of industry?
Robber barrons
What were established that split the U.S. into different regions based on time?
time zones
The industrial owners of this era encouraged labor unions. (True or False)
What is False?
This allowed for long distance communication to happen rapidly.
What is the telegraph?
Business owners tried to get rid of competition by owning entire/product or service in an industry. This is called a________ (Hint: Like the board game)
What is a Monopoly/Trusts?
The American Federation of Labor was led by which man?
A. General Sherman
B. Cornelius Vanderbilt
C. Samuel Gompers
D. Richard Sherman
Samuel Gompers
A common technique used by labor unions, where groups of employees refuse to work until their demands are met, is called ___________.
What is a strike?
This Gilded Age captain of industry/robber baron is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What town in Illinois was developed and owned by the Pullman Company?
Pullman, Illinois
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
Telephone
What term refers to coming together as a group to demand improvements, raises, better working conditions int he workplace?
collective bargaining
What major (and violent) local strike occurred due to a group of ‘scabs’ being brought in to replace the workers? *Hint* Occurred in 1892
Homestead Strike
What act allowed the federal government to supervise railroad activities?
1887 Interstate Commerce Act
Who adapted the steam engine to be able to remove oil from the earth?
Edwin Drake
What company was formed to steal money from the Union Pacific RR investors?
Credit Mobilier
This new type of transportation connected the east to the west coast.
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
the growth of businesses that manufacture products through the use of machinery
what is industrialization?
Which woman was a famous coal miners’ organizer?
A. Loretta Lynn
B. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
C. Tennessee Ernie Ford
D. Susan B. Anthony
B. Mother Jones
What word is used for the movement of population into the cities?
urbanization
Prohibited businesses from being anti-competitive (total domination of an industry)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What is the French Word that means "allow to do"... and in terms of economic policy, it means that the government would be hands off in the economy?
Laissez-Faire
This new process made the production of steel more economical
What is the Bessemer Process?
Who demanded government control/regulation for the railroads?
the grangers
JP Morgan controlled the_________ industry; Rockfeller controlled the___________ industry; and Carnegie controlled the_________ industry.
What is Banking (Morgan); Oil (Rockefeller), Steel (Carnegie)?
An economy where private businesses make the decisions about how much to produce and at what price.
what is a capitalist economy?
What phrase was used to mean applying “survival of the fittest” to business?
social darwinism
What court case led to government intervention of the railroads?
Munn v. Illinois