The Second Industrial Revolution
A period of rapid growth in US manufacturing in the late 1800s.
What was the Second Industrial Revolution?
businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares
What are corporations?
the first national labor union
What was the Knights of Labor?
the inventor of the Model T in 1908
Who was Henry Ford?
Standard Oil Company
What was the name of John D. Rockefeller's oil company?
a railroad strike that ended when President Grover Cleveland sent in federal troops
What was the Pullman strike?
An inventor who founded the first modern research laboratory when he hired others with scientific talent and began what became known as an “invention factory“ in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Who was Thomas Edison?
He focused on steelmaking
What did Andrew Carnegie focus his efforts on?
a dynamite bomb
What was thrown at the police at the Haymarket Riot?
More than 1,000 patents
How many patents did Thomas Edison hold?
they reduced necessary competition
What was one effect of monopolies?
craft unions were unhappy with how the Knights of Labor represented their interests, so they did this
What was the cause of the formation of the AFL?
Located near Titusville, Pennsylvania, it was the first petroleum oil well drilled in the United States.
What was Drake's Oil Well?
Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory decided which human beings would succeed in business and life in general
What did social Darwinists believe?
Small, crowded rooms. Stuffy air. Unsafe workplaces. Long hours. Low pay. No job security.
What were the working conditions like during the Second Industrial Revolution?