Inventors
a government document giving an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell his or her invention for a specific number of years.
What is a Patent?
a business owned by investors who buy part of the company through shares of stock
What is a corporation
During the Industrial Revolution, these were built to increase the amount of products produced in a single day
what are factories?
A railroad that crosses an entire continent is called
Trans-Continental Railroad
Inventor of the Sewing Machine
Who is Isaac Singer?
This man beat out his competition by controlling the terms on which they could buy and sell their product
Who is John Rockefeller?
A small business where workers – often children- worked long hours in poor conditions and for very low pay.
What is a sweatshop?
This event took place in Philadelphia in 1876 and demonstrated new inventions.
The Centennial Exhibition
Invention that led to faster and easier STEEL production
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
By the time of his death, this man had given all of his wealth away.
Andrew Carnegie
Daily Double!! The daily rate of pay in some factories during the industrial revolution
What is Ten CENTS a day?
the main economic activity of the South during the late 1800s
What is farming?
Samuel Morse invented this piece of technology
Telegraph
A business leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods.
What is a robber baron?
The late 18th Century is referred to as the __________ age.
What is the Gilded Age?
Trains that could QUICKLY travel from one part of the country to another led to the creation of this
What is standard time?
This new process made harvesting petroleum (oil) from the ground much easier
The Drake Method of Drilling
a person who gives large sums of money to charities
What is a philanthropist
To increase their ability to bargain with management, workers formed these
What are labor unions or "unions"
DAILY DOUBLE!! The years of the Industrial Revolution
1960-1914