Steel and Oil
This product helps to produce gasoline and tar.
What is Oil?
When one company owns a vast major of market power in an industry.
What is a monopoly?
A fire at this location was deadly due to locked doors and no fire escapes.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
This man controlled the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Skyscrapers were made possible by the mass production of this good.
What is steel?
A combination of companies under one owner or board of directors.
What is a trust?
This allowed businesses to communicate faster and more efficently.
What is the telephone?
This man controlled the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This system allowed producers to make more products and utilize machine power to make production more efficent.
What is the factory system?
A workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay.
What is a sweatshop?
This person invented the motion picture industry.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This man helped America during the Panic of 1907.
Who is JP Morgan?
This process was used to mass produce steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
The role of government in a free market economy.
What is nothing?
This government agency saw value in "flying machines".
What is the US Military?
Carnegie became one of these later in life in order to help society.
What is a philanthropist?
This man invented the first commercial oil well.
Who is Edwin Drake?
This prevents contracts, combinations, and conspiracies in restraints of trade.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This scottish-born teacher of the deaf invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This was the name of the muckraker who exposed John D. Rockefeller's corrupt business practices.
Who is Ida Tarbell?