This innovation created a faster & more practical way to transport goods, created a national market, lowered costs of production and intersected in Promontory Point, Utah.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
This was a vast area of grassland that the federal government owned. Cattle would grazed in this area.
What is a open range?
100
He invented the Model T automobile using the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
100
A number of people share the ownership of a business. Therefore the investor will not lose no more than the orginal investment.
What is a corporation?
100
1. Railroads
2. New Inventions
3. Increase of Labor
4. Access to raw materials
5. Mass Production
What are the causes of industrialization?
200
This piece of legislation was designed to break up (dissolve) monopolies & trusts.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
200
A tract of public land available for settlement. Up to 160 acres of land and could recieve title to that land after living for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
Invented the light bulb in 1879. This invention extended the work day.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
Complete control of a product or service.
What is a monopoly?
200
This movement argue that wealth should be distributed equaly to everyone.
What is socialism?
300
Two nicknames that industrialists like John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie had since they were both philanthropists but also men who gained their wealth using questionable methods.
What are Captains of Industry & Robber Barons?
300
This technological innovation helped put an end the the long drive.
What is barbed wire?
300
Invented the telephone in 1876. This invention improve communication.
Who is Alexander Bell?
300
Oversee railroad operations.
What is the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)?
300
Negotitating as a group for higher wages or better working conditons. One example of this is a strike.
What is collective bargaining?
400
Labor organization characterized by the following: female & blacks members allowed to join, supported 8-hour work days, and worked to aboloish child labor.
Who was the Knights of Labor?
400
Land set aside by the government for Native American.
What is a resveration?
400
Invented the steam bolier furnace. This invention improved steam-powered furnace for running trains.
Who is Granville Woods?
400
Made it easier to make steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
400
He was the founder of the ARU (Ameican Railway Union).
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
500
Method used by Carnegie Steel where they would purchase and control all phases of a products production.
What is vertical consolidation?
500
Native American population decrease.
What happened to Native American as a result of warfare and disease?
500
Sewing Machine revolutionizes the way clothes are made in homes and factories.
Who is Elias Howe?
500
Known for giving money to charities?
What is a philanthropist?
500
This act was to encougage the process of assimilation for Native Americans.