Industrialists
This industrialist earned his fortune in the oil industry in Cleveland, Ohio, and didn't pay his employees well.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This progressive reformer wrote The Jungle, which exposed the unsanitary and unsafe working conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The Women's Christian Temperance Union fought for this amendment, which was ratified in 1919 and repealed in 1933, that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Alexander Graham Bell invented this product in 1876 in Boston and founded the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.
What is the telephone?
This Southern president's domestic policy was known as the New Freedom. He attacked the triple wall of privilege (trusts, tariffs, and high finance) and supported labor union strikes over wages and benefits.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This banker helped create monopolies and trusts by merging competing businesses, like U.S. Steel, and loaned the U.S. government money in the early 1900s.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This Progressive reformer and President was a trustbuster who took J.P. Morgan to court to break up the railroad monopoly that he controlled through his bank.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Ratified in 1913, this amendment allowed for the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Thomas Edison perfected this product, which provided electricity to homes and allowed factories to be built anywhere.
What is the incandescent light bulb?
This Industrial Era idea discouraged government regulation of businesses and promoted the "survival of the fittest."
What is Social Darwinism?
This industrialist brought the Bessemer Process to the U.S. and built a steel monopoly by vertically integrating his company.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This progressive reformer and Muckraker exposed John D. Rockefeller's aggressive, cutthroat business practices and Standard Oil's dominance in the oil industry in McClure's magazine.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Susan B. Anthony and other suffragists fought for this amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This process allowed for the mass production of steel and involves blowing air through molten iron to remove impurities.
Passed in 1890, this law banned trusts, monopolies, and other forms of business that restricted free trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This industrialist horizontally integrated Standard Oil by buying rival oil refineries or forcing them out of business.
Who is John Rockefeller?
This Progressive reformer and muckraker exposed the horrors of child labor by writing a book, The Bitter Cry of the Children, about the Pennsylvania Breaker Boys.
Who is John Spargo?
Ratified in 1913, this amendment gave Congress the power to impose an income tax on taxpayers.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Henry Ford invented this process that enabled the Ford Motor Company to rapidly increase the number of cars it produced each week.
What is the assembly line?
Abundant natural resources, a growing supply of labor from immigration, advances in transportation and technology, and a government actively promoting industrial and agricultural development.
What are factors contributing to the American Industrial Revolution?
These men built huge fortunes by stealing public resources, paying workers low wages, and allowing unsafe working conditions.
Who are Robber Barons?
This Progressive reformer was a civil rights activist during the Progressive Era who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and fought against racial oppression using her platform to expose the horrors of lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This President was a conservationist, known for his Square Deal, supported the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, and ended the coal miner strike of 1902.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This industrialist financially backed Thomas Edison's direct current (DC) against Nicola Telsa's alternating current (AC), but he later pushed Edison out of his company and bought Westinghouse's AC patents.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This economic system is based on private ownership of property, open markets, and minimal government interference in the economy.
What is Capitalism?
These people created jobs, produced an enormous supply of goods, built factories, increased productivity, and donated hundreds of millions of dollars to found museums, libraries, and universities.
Who are Captains of Industry?
These organizations fought for an eight-hour day, equal pay for women, higher wages, and arbitration.
What are labor unions?
This former state judge was the handpicked successor to Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, but he lost the 1912 presidential election. He would go on to be a justice on the United States Supreme Court.
Who is William Howard Taft?
Edwin Drake discovered this machine would help oil companies drill for oil in Pennsylvania in 1859.
What is a steam engine?
In 2013, American Airlines bought US Airways, both commercial airlines, becoming the largest airline in the world at the time. What is this an example of?
What is horizontal integration?
This man donated $1 million to found Vanderbilt University.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This act created 12 district banks in the U.S. to oversee private banks, provide necessary funds, and bailouts. Missouri is the only state to have two of those districts.
What is the Federal Reserve Bank?
This president pushed for passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act, which banned companies from buying stock in another company if it would result in a monopoly.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell had to file one of these with the U.S. government to prevent others from copying their invention.
What is a patent?
Last year, Boeing, bought Spirit AeroSystems, for about $4.7 billion. Boeing makes commercial and military airplanes, while Spirit makes the fuselages (location of the passengers and crew on a commercial plane) for Boeing commercial airplanes. What is this an example of?
What is vertical integration?