Industrial Technology
This natural resource (found in the U.S.) fueled the early steam engines and other machines of the Industrial Revolution.
What is coal?
This man eventually cornered more than 90% of the oil refining in the United States.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
He is credited with inventing the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
The creation of an organized group of workers within an industry.
What is a union?
To own one or more shares in a company.
What is stock?
These two industries lead the way in the American Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.
What are steel (production) and the railroads?
His use of vertical integration started with iron mines and ended with sales to railroads and skyscraper construction companies.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
His lab in Menlo Park was famous and it is credited with the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
Who is Thomas A. Edison?
Samuel Gompers led this union and that organized these types of workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor and skilled labor.
This stock center increased six-fold during the Gilded Age.
What is the New York Stock Exchange?
This European process of steel-making revolutionized the industry.
What is the Bessemer process? (The U.S. also used the new open hearth method.)
He is noted for his use of the assembly line to make cars.
Who is Henry Ford?
These brothers used the internal combustion engine to experiment with human flight (and succeeded).
Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
The result of the Homestead Lockout or Strike in 1892.
What is the end of the steel union at the mill and a huge setback for organized labor within the U.S.
To buy out your competitors.
What is horizontal integration? (or horizontal monopoly)
This transportation advance changed manufacturing and sales in the United States from local to national.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This family rose to prominence by investing in East Coast steamships and railroads. They were known for their New York City and Newport, R.I. social life.
Who are the Vanderbilts?
He put the slaughter of livestock on the assembly line and his engineers designed the refrigerator car, revolutionizing the meat-packing industry.
Who is Gustavus Swift?
The Haymarket Affair (or Riot) ended the large support for this union that tried to organize "all who toil."
Who were the Knights of Labor?
This tool of government is meant to protect national manufacturers and raise revenue for the government.
What is a (high) tariff?
(Also called an import tax.)
This invention allowed U.S. farmers to plant on the Great Plains and made a fortune for John Deere and Company.
What is the steel plow?
One of the railroad kings of California, he built a university to honor his son.
Who is Leland Stanford?
He is credited with the creation of the first great department store (Philadelphia, 1875).
Who is John Wanamaker?
He advocated for income tax and public transportation to aid the workers in his best-selling book analyzing the changes brought about by the US industrial revolution.
Who are Henry George and Progress and Poverty?
The application of evolutionary biology to business as an explanation of the unequal outcomes of modern industry.
What is Social Darwinism?