Big Business
Henry Ford Was a leader in this industry
What is Transportation
After his retirement, Andrew Carnegie donated most of his money (over $350 million) to establish libraries, schools, and universities, as well as a pension fund for former employees
What is a Captain of Industry
Someone who increases the avaliability of goods by building factories would be considered a
What is a Captain of Industry
This photographer brought light to the issue of Child Labor
Who is Jacob Riis
These groups played a vital role in improving working conditions, limiting the number of hours worked and increasing pay
What is a labor union
John D Rockefeller controlled 90% of business in this industry
What is Oil
John D. Rockefeller often resorted to using spies and extortion to influence railroads to work in his favor by offering him kickbacks and rebates that were denied to his competitors
What is a Robber Baron
Someone who corrupts public officials to interpret laws in their favor
What is a Robber Baron
This journalist wrote about political corruption particularly as it related to Tammany Hall
Who is Lincoln Steffans
This fire killed over a hundred women and ultimately led to reforms in factories
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Andrew Carnegie was considered to be the leader in this industry
What is Steel
Between 1860 and 1890, the U.S. Patent Office issued over 400,000 patents. The technological innovation and applied science promoted by entrepreneurs brought about many inventions still in use today
What is a Captain of Industry
The idea that only the strong survive and survival of the fittest
What is Social Darwinism
This photographer highlighted the dirty and horrid living conditions people faced in the slums and tenemants in New York City
Who is Lewis Hine
This law was passed to prevent monopolies from forming and controlling industries
What is the Sherman Anti Trust Act
The leader of the Transportation Industry (Particularily railroads) during the Gilded Age
Who is
Cornelius Vanderbilt
The steamboat and railroad tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt continuously cut shipping rates to the point that other steamboat and railroad companies could not compete and were forced out of business
What is a Robber Baron
And economic industry in which businesses are privately owned and production, prices, and distribution of goods are determined by a free market
What is Capitalism
This Muckraker wrote about the lynching of hundreds of black Americans in the Southern United States
Who is Ida B Wells
What is suffrage
A Banker who financed railroads, steel, General Electric and other major corporations
Who is J.P. Morgan
By 1890, the richest nine percent of Americans held 75 percent of the nation’s wealth. The average yearly income for a worker was $380. Andrew Carnegie had a yearly income of $25 million by 1900
What is a Robber Baron
A situation in which one company controlls the market
This muckraker wrote about the conditions in mental health institutions and brought light to the way in which patients were being treated in these asylums
Who is Nellie Bly
This movement focused on limiting and abolishing the sale of alcohol
What is the Temperance Movement