The Industrial Age
The incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, as well as many other things that moved industrialization forward, were invented by this man
Thomas Edison
Big industry led to the creation of modern ______ ________ that were formed to represent workers.
Labor Unions
When management and union couldn't agree to terms, workers would organize a refusal to work called a
This is the richest man in the history of America, he started the Standard Oil Company and became a billionaire.
John Rockefeller
This man invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Mark Twain gave the Industrial Age this two word nickname, which meant that it appeared valuable on the surface but actually wasn't.
Gilded Age
This process of negotiation used by labor unions argued through "strength in numbers", believing that the more workers that confronted management together, the more chance they'd have to succeed.
Collective Bargaining
This detective agency was hired by many businesses to protect their assets and keep workers from breaking equipment or even go on strike in some cases.
Pinkertons
This man created a monopoly on Steel through horizontal integration.
Andrew Carnegie
This man fought for change in the early labor movement, established the American Socialist Party and ran for President 5 times... including once from jail.
Eugene Debs
The industrial boom in benefited cities in which part of the country the most?
The north
Labor Unions fought mainly for three improvements in the work place. What were they?
Working Hours
Working Wages
Working Conditions
This strike occurred at the Carnegie Steel Company outside Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, resulting in the eventual death of 2 workers.
Homestead Strike
This man didn't specialize in a product, instead he invested heavily in other products, creating trusts and building massive wealth in the process.
JP Morgan
This man created a private railroad monopoly of rail lines in New York, New England, and all the way into the Great Lakes.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
The completion of the transcontinental railroad lead to the growth of big cities in the midwest and west. Name 3 of them.
Chicago, Indianapolis, Omaha, Fort Worth, Denver, Seattle
This man formed the American Federation of Labor in 1886 that eventually became the largest labor union in the country.
Samuel Gompers
This strike began in Chicago, Illinois but extended west over the course of 2 months, halting virtually all railway travel west of Detroit, Michigan.
Big businesses created monopolies that favored the wealthy, and they justified their actions through this idea that only the strongest will survive in the workplace.
Social Darwinism
This Congressman authored the first ever law that cracked down on the freedom of big businesses during the industrial age.
John Sherman
The transcontinental railroad was mainly built by which three people groups?
Irish immigrants
Chinese immigrants
Former slaves
Were labor unions and strikes in the 1800s successful? Why or why not?
Not successful... strikes usually made the businesses angry and they reduced wages or made life more difficult for workers. Also most of the American public believed that unions were run by Communists and anarchists and didn't trust them.
How did the Pullman Strike finally end?
President Grover Cleveland sent in the US Army because the strike was stopping the mail from being delivered by trains
How did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act fundamentally change the United States economy?
It was the first law that placed rules and regulations on big businesses. This led stricter laws in the 1900s which broke up of massive companies into smaller ones.
This man revolutionized the steel refining process, which accelerated the industrial age.
Henry Bessemer