People
Created the functional incandescent light bulb
Who was Thomas Edison?
Outlawed trusts, monopolies, and anticompetitive agreements
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Businesses operating without competition in their industry
What are monopolies?
A theory about the survival of the “fittest”
What is Social Darwinism?
Chicago railroad workers protesting against wage cuts (1894)
What was the Pullman Strike?
Revolutionized factory production by developing the assembly line
Who was Henry Ford?
A landmark U.S. law that first regulated the railroad industry
What was the Interstate Commerce Act?
Writers who exposed corruption amongst industries and the government during the Industrial Era
What are muckrakers?
The transition from hand made products to mass production in factories
What is industrialization?
A massacre that happened after a bombing at a labor demonstration
What was the Haymarket Riot?
American inventors who made the world's first successful motor-operated airplane
Who were Orville and Wilbur Wright?
Groups that arose after people got sick of the harsh realities that the industrial revolution came with.
What were labor unions?
The increase of commerce due to technological breakthroughs and innovation
What was the expansion of trade?
The movement of population from rural areas to cities due to new job opportunities caused by industrialization
What is urbanization?
1892, Carnegie Steel workers strike over pay cuts
What was the Homestead Strike?
He is best known for developing the railroad air brake and championing alternating current
Who was George Westinghouse?
A political belief that stands on collective ownership and social welfare, made to compete with capitalism
What is socialism?
Soon after capitalism was left unrestricted, practices like monopolies and trusts arose, and that’s when the government had to step in.
American minorities who were the first to hold patents to genial designs.
Who were African-American inventors
The invention of the engine powering the Industrial Revolution.
What was the invention of steam power?
Five time socialist candidate and labor organizer in the United States
Who was Eugene Debs?
He built a town in Chicago to house his workers and perfected railroad travel.
Who was George Pullman?
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who were the captains of industry?
The first inexpensive way to mass produce steel from molten iron
What is the Bessemer process?
Created in 1869, this rail system connected the west and east coasts of the United States.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?