Inventions
Inventor of the light bulb
Thomas Edison
Chinese immigrants
What is a monopoly?
Company controls entire industry
Oldest soft drink in the U.S.
Dr. Pepper
Name three poor working conditions
Inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Which industries were affected by the railroad industry?
ALL of them.
Horizontal or Vertical Integration: Disney acquires Marvel and Fox.
Horizontal
Highest grossing Christmas movie of all time.
The Grinch
What is a union?
A group of workers that come together to make decisions about the conditions of their work.
The process in which to make steel faster/cheaper.
Bessemer Process
Who were the Grangers and what did they do?
Farmers who went after the railroad industry.
Horizontal or Vertical Integration: Carnegie owns coal fields, iron mines, railroads
Vertical integration
Year that Pluto was demoted to a "dwarf planet."
2006
Reason why the ARU had a target on their back.
Other industries rely on railroads, politicians don't want the economy to suffer.
Three things steel was used for.
Railroads, barbed wire, bridges, skyscrapers, etc.
Munn v. Illinois did what?
Granger laws were constitutional
How did Rockefeller gain control of most of the oil industry?
Predatory pricing
Performed at the 1993 superbowl
Michael Jackson
Yellow Dog Contracts
Contracts employers would force employees to sign promising they wouldn't join a union.
Three reasons why the United States was able to industrialize.
Interstate Commerce Act did what?
Railroads subject to federal regulation
Name an industrialist and corresponding industry: One reason they would be considered a captain of industry and one reason they would be considered a robber Baron.
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Lyrics to what Disney movie: From zero to hero in no time flat. Zero to hero just like that.
Hercules
Three reasons why public support for unions declined.
Labor leaders were mostly immigrants.
Labor leaders seen as politically extreme.
Association with violence.