Businessmen
He made railroad transportation more efficient.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
He created the Telephone, Photophone, Hydrofoil, HD-4, Audiometer, Metal Detector, and the Tetrahedral Kite.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
It was created to enable consistent railroad schedules.
What is Railroad Time (Time Zones)?
She was once labeled the "most dangerous women in America" by the U.S. Attorney General. She was a self proclaimed "hell-raiser" who dedicated her life to the cause of the working poor.
Who was Mary Harris Jones?
This law allowed to stop Chinese immigration.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act(1882)?
He led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This invention made steel easier, quicker and cheaper to manufacture and revolutionized structural engineering.
What is the Bessemer Process?
It was created to link the Nations together.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace. She found the Hull house in Chicago (1889).
Who was Jane Adams?
An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
What is a Labor Union?
He controlled almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the U.S.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This is a process in which a company buys and/or mergers out all of the suppliers with competing companies.
What is Horizontal/Vertical Integration?
Public transportation especially in the urban areas.
What is Mass Transit?
The desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.
What is Philanthropy?
An industrial lockout and strike which began July 1, 1892 between strikers and privet security agents.
What was the Homestead Strike?
He was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age.
Who was J.P Morgan?
A factory where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor condition.
What are sweatshops?
Millions of "New Immigrants" came from Southern and Eastern Europe, mostly to work in factories.
What is Urbanization?
He founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
It followed a series of strikes riot break outs where a bomb is thrown and several people died?
What was the Haymarket Affair?
A term used frequently in the 19th century during America's Gilded Age to describe successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical.
What is Robber Barons?
This applied Darwin's theory to businesses. It justified harsh tactics in business and not helping the poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
This tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
A national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Enacted in 1890 to curtail combinations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition. It outlaws both formal cartels and attempts to monopolize any part of commerce in the United States.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?