| A | B |
|---|
| monopoly | when one company has total or too much control over an entire industry |
| corporation | a company or business open to public ownership |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | to ban companies that were limiting the business of other companies |
| J.P. Morgan | banker and investor |
| Mother Jones | campaigned for child labor |
| Bessemer Process | created a rise in the sale and use of steel |
| Knights of Labor | allowed women, African Americans, and unskilled workers join |
| American Federation of Labor | only allowed skilled workers from trade unions to join |
| Consolidation | to combine smaller businesses into one |
| Pittsburgh | the center of the Steel Industry |
| Andrew Carnegie | made fortune from steel |
| refrigerated railroad cars | advanced the meat industry |
| assembly line | advanced the automobile industry |
| Triangle Fire | led to safety laws for factories |
| Thomas Edison's invention factory | located in Menlo Park, NJ |
| unions were formed | better pay and shorter work day |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | monopolized the railroads |
| John Rockerfeller | monopolized the oil industry |
| Sweat shops | factories with horrible working conditions |
| Uses of steel | railroad track, screws, nails, needles, skyscrapers |
