Innovation and Inventions
Who created the first durable lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison
Corporations
What is businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares
First person to drilled a commercial oil well
Edwin L Drake
How were companies in the 1800s able to overcome unions
Government are on their side because of bribery and corruption.
a group of workers gathered together to demand better rights
what is collect bargaining
What problem did Thomas Edison face after inventing the light bulb, and how did he solve it?
Few homes or businesses had electricity, so he built a power plant (Edison Electric) to supply it.
How did the moving assembly line work
workers stay in one place as products edge along on a moving belt
This individual who responsible for the assembly line and creation of the model T
Who is Henry Ford
Samuel Gompers led a union group of skilled workers was called
vertical integration
ownership of businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process.
How did competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse affect the spread of electricity?
build better power systems to help spread electicty nationwide.
How did the Bessemer process affect the price and speed of steel production?
It cut production time from a day or more to just 10–20 minutes, dramatically increasing output and lowering steel prices.
Author of the The Principles of Scientific Management
Frederick W. Taylor
Terrance W Powderly led
What is the Knights of Labor
horizontal integration
owning all businesses in a certain field.
How long did the airplane last in the air
What is 12 seconds
What advantage did the corporations offer investors?
not dealing with the company debt
losing money that they invested
Irish Immigrant who fought for miners and child labor rights.
Who is "Mother Jones" or Mary Harris Jones
Which strike in 1894 in Chicago went nationwide
Pullman Strike
Alexander Graham Bell created the
telephone
Second Industrial Revolution was
a period of rapid growth in US manufacturing in the late 1800s from new technologies and resources.
What overall factors fueled industrial growth in this era?
Greater use of natural resources, a growing population, transportation advances, rising immigration, new inventions, business investment, and government policies like protective tariffs.
This individual led the Knights of Labor filled with skilled and unskilled labors.
Who is Terence V Powderly
This union accepted skilled and unskilled labors but also allowed African Americans and women to their union.
What is the American Federation of Labor
monopoly
complete ownership of product or business by one person or more