| A | B |
|---|
| Labor Union | Organized to Improve Wages |
| Breaker Boys | Coal industry workers |
| Strike | Workers would do this to show how they felt about low wages and poor working conditions |
| "Robber Barons" | Some people called Carnegie and Rockefeller like this |
| Monopoly | The Standard Oil Company |
| Bessemer Process | An easier way to make steel |
| Child Labor | Laws regarding this were passed to try to protect some workers |
| Company Town | A community for workers |
| John D. Rockefeller | Created a monopoly in the oil industry |
| Andrew Carnegie | Created a monopoly in the steel industry |
| Higher pay and better working conditions | Two goals of labor unions |
| First Labor Unions | Did not have more power. Most of the members did not have skills |
| American Federation of Labor | Most of the members were skilled workers. |
| Thomas Alba Edison | Invented the electric light bulb |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the Telephone |
| George Pullman | Invented the Railroad sleeping car |
| Joseph Glidden | Invented the Barbed Wire |
| Elijah McCoy | Invented a device that oil engines |
| Cyrus McCormick | Invented the first Reaper of practical use |
| John Deere | Invented the steel plow and the sulky plow |
