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| Edwin Drake | in 1859 he used a steam engine to drill for oil successfully and made removing oil from beneath teh earth's surface practical |
| Eugene Debs | attempted to form an industrial union, the American Railway Union, ARU, thought to include all laborers-skilled and unskilled |
| Christopher Sholes | invented the typewriter |
| John D. Rockefeller | established the Standard Oil Company, which controled 90 % of the refining business |
| Andrew Carnegie | made money from stock dividends, started his steel compnay, give to charities, and used Vertical Integration and Horizontal Integration |
| Thomas Edison | started first research laboratory and perfected the light bulb and invented a whole system for producing and distributing electrical power |
| Mary Jones - aka Mother Jones | organizer in the women's labor movement, supported the Great Strike of 1877 |
| George Pullman | built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the illinois prairie |
| The Pullman Strike | Was a violent strike when Pullman refused to lower rent after lowering his employee's pay |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone in 1876 |
| Henry Bessemer | A British manufacturer that inject air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurites |
| Social Darwinism | an economic and social philosophy that a system of free competition will ensure the survival of the fittest |
| Scabs | strikebreakers |
| skyscrapers | tall buildings |
| IWW | Industrial Workers of the World- labor organization for unskilled workers, started in 1905 by radical unionists and socialists |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | A fire that killed a lot of workers in a factory with locked doors |
| Credit Mobilier | a construction company formed in 1864 by the Union Pacific Railroad owners who skimmed off railroad profits for themselves |
| Factors that lead to Industrialization | Natural Resources, creative ideas, and growing markets |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | a law that started in 1890, that had an intention of preventing the creation of monopolies |
| Vertical Integration | when a company takes over its suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain control over the quality and cost of its product |
| Railroad Strike of 1877 | egan on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias, as well as by federal troops. |
| Haymarket Riot | They were protesting police brutality, someone tossed a bomb into the police line, then police fired on the workers, and people convicted of inciting a riot |
| Home Stead Strike | as a labor lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, with a battle between the strikers and private security agents erupting on July 6, 1892. It is one of the most serious labor disputes in U.S. history. The dispute occurred in Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (the AA) and the Carnegie Steel Company. |
