People
Who are these people?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
James J Hill
Collis P Huntington/Leland Stanford
Railroad Barons
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Anti Trust and Monopolies
Bigger companies drove _______ __________ out of business (Fill in the blank)
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
Telephone
What did Granville Woods invent?
-electromagnetic brake for railroad
-automatic circuit breaker
Who created the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
What act was the unions response to:
-Lower wages
-Fired workers
The unions act
What was used for fuel?
Coal
What did George Westinghouse invent?
Air brakes and improved Edison's work of transformers
What did Eli H. Janney?
Couplers used to link cars
Who is the leader of Knights of labor?
Terence V. Powderely
What union pushed for a safer environment after the death f many sweatshop women?
International Ladies Garment worker union
How did banks make money?
By lending loans to business
Who invented a mechanism for oiling a machine?
Elijah McCoy
What did Edwin L/ Drake do?
drilled for oil and struck oil in Pennsylvania
-led to multi million dollar petroleum industry
What did Pullman get an injunction for?
To stop the union from holding up the railroad, because the union was on strike
What union supported striker against the Pullman cars?
The American Railway union
-manufactured goods
-machines
-buildings and tools
-money for investment
Capital refers to what?
What did William Burroughs invent?
The adding machine
Who is the leader of the Knight of Labor?
Terence V. Powderly
Who sent troops to end the strike?
President Cleveland
What labor union recruited people who were kept out of unions?Like:
-Women
-African Americans
-Immigrants
-unskilled laborers
Knights of Labor
_____ was used for the railway tracks (Fill in the blank)
Steel
Who invented the type writer?
Christopher Shole
What is a trade union?
a union formed by workers in a specific craft to represented other workers