The Big Guys
Vocab
Vocab (People)
Inventions, Cartoons, and Industrial Revolution
100
A railroad monopoly who started out with ships and then railroads. Later he took over the railroad industry.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
100
Someone who puts money into a company.
What is an Investor?
100
Inventor of the light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
100
This invention revolutionized travel and brought people all over the country.
What is the steam engine?
200
The ruler of the steel industry who started out as an assistant for a man in the railroad industry. This man also later built the Mississippi Bridge, uniting the two halves of the United States.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
200
A share of a company
What is stock?
200
Inventor of the telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
200
This invention revolutionized communication and let people communicate all around America.
What is the telegraph?
300
A oil industry monopoly who made a shipping deal with Vanderbilt, invented a cheap source of light, and revolutionized oil transportation.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
300
A period of time characterized by wealth.
What was the Gilded Age?
300
The person who made the newspaper chain Hearst Communications.
Who was William Randolph Hearst?
300
This item was invented in the hopes of decreasing slavery but instead caused growth in slavery. This invention separates seeds from cotton producing much faster productivity.
What is the cotton gin?
400
A man who came to New York to find a better life but for a while struggled to find a job. Later became a photo journalist and showed people how hard poor people's lives were.
Who was Jacob Riis?
400
The refusal to work due to horrible working conditions and long hours.
What is a strike?
400
These two people created the first flying airplane.
Who were Orville & Wilbur Wright?
400
This political cartoon shows an octopus with large eyes, giant whiskers, and the word monopoly on one of his tentacles. This cartoon represents all of the monopolies big business owners had that were large and sometimes frightfull.
What is the "Monopoly Menace?"
500
Born in 1850, this man was the son of a Jewish cigar maker. His parents took him to New York City when he was 13 where he got a job in a cigar factory. Later in life he founded the American Foundation of Labor (AFL) and was president for a while. He died in 1924 at the age of 74.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
500
The self policy of just letting things happen.
What is Laissez Faire?
500
The electric railway, early electric elevators, and the commercial electric motor were made by this man
Who was Frank Sprague?
500
This played a very important role in the development of urbanization and labor because with all the extra materials, many more homes could be built for families and with more families comes more job-desperate people. With all those people more kids were getting forced to work, it brought more labor.
How did industrialization play a role in the development of urbanization and labor?