Industrial Giants
This hugely successful businessman first started working as a bobbin boy shortly after his family immigrated to the United States from Scotland.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Young Carnegie learned how to operate this new communication device in order to get better jobs
What is a telegraph?
This new transportation system allowed businesses to ship goods more quickly and more cheaply on land than ever before.
What is the railroad?
The United States entered a period of rapid industrial growth after this major war.
What is the American Civil War?
The production of goods by machines in factories.
What is industrialization?
This business man was the head of the New York Central railroad system.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Alexander Graham Bell is famous for inventing this communication device.
What is the telephone?
Goods had to be transferred from one train to another in the early days of railroads because this "g" word had not been standardized across tracks built by different companies.
What is/are gauge(s)?
Laws preventing this group of people from working in factories did not contribute to America's industrial growth.
What are children?
A share or ownership in a company.
What is a stock?
This man's Standard Oil Company forced railroad companies to pay rebates in the late 1880s and ran many of them out of business.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Thanks to Thomas Edison, this bright invention of his now commonly symbolizes new ideas.
What is a light bulb?
In the 1880s, Andrew Carnegie's steel company shifted from producing rails to producing beams for these tall buildings.
What are skyscrapers?
Garbage, sewage, and disease spread became major consequences for cities as a result of this phenomenon.
What is urbanization?
This legal document gives the holder a protected right to make and sell a certain product.
What is a patent?
This man mentored Andrew Carnegie from childhood and played a critical role in helping him achieve financial success.
This new invention made oil more valuable after 1900 than it was before.
What is the car or automobile?
The development of this underground transportation system allowed city development to expand outward.
What is a subway?
Due to the growth of big businesses, the gap between these two groups widened significantly.
Who are the rich and the poor?
A term from illegal or dishonest behavior, often carried out by people in positions of power.
What is corruption?
This man was a notorious and corrupt political "boss" in New York City.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
Thomas Edison transformed the world with his electric grid system by first lighting up the homes of wealthy people in this city.
What is New York City?
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the first factories were built to mass produce this material.
What is (cotton) fabric or textiles?
This cigar factory worker created the American Federation of Labor to fight dangerous working conditions and campaign for workers' rights.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
What is a political machine?