Industry and Railroads
This person in America used hot air to purify iron into steel
Who is William Kelly?
These are risk takers who use their money and talent to embark on new business ventures
What is entrepreneurs?
This act made it illegal to form trusts that interfere with free trade
This underground system of transport got its first start in Boston
What is the subways?
A NY school principal came up with this to help the railroad keep time.
What is time zones?
This person got the patent on his Bessemer Process to make steel
Who is Henry Bessemer?
This means "Let-Do" in terms of economics
Lasseiz-faire
This is the ratio of kids that were working during the Second Industrial Rev
What is one in 6?
There wright brothers took flight with their invention in Kitty Hawk, NC
What is airplanes?
Massive industries begin organizing as these businesses which have the legal statues of an individual
What is a corporation?
This was needed to light lamps, driving the beginning of the oil industry
what is kerosene?
This explains how some succeed in society and others do not.
What is Social Darwinism?
This is the name of the unsafe, super-crammed, shops people worked in, typically in the garment industry
What is sweatshops?
This was created by Morse to communicate electronically via his code
What is the Telegraph?
This is what it is called when trusts gain full control of an industry
What is a monopoly?
This is the person who first was successful in drilling for oil in PA
Who is Edwin Drake?
Rockefeller helped run this company, having an almost monopoly over the industry
What is Standard Oil?
This was a national workers union that got its start in Philly
What is The Knights Of Labor?
This device allowed voices to be transmitted electronically for the first time
What is the telephone?
Consumers would order off of these and get products shipped to their houses
What is a mail-order catalog?
This oil well sent oil gushing 100 ft in the air for days on end officially marking the start of the oil boom.
What is Spindletop Hill, TX
This person helped make the steel in Pittsburgh and also found Carnegie Hall
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This was a riot where a bomb was thrown into the middle of the crowd, and it also showed the police's xenophobia
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This made writing much easier and also established the "Qwerty Keyboard"
What is the typewriter?
He is one of the tycoons of the railroads and helped create an SEC school named after him
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?