| A | B |
|---|
| Industrial Age | 1870 - 1900 US Leadijng Industrial Power in the World |
| Black Gold | Oil |
| Edwin Drake | used a steam engine to drill for oil. |
| Besssemer Process | Injecting Air into molten iron to make steel. |
| Uses for Steel | Skyscrappers, railroads, bridges. |
| Thomas Alva Edison | Patented light bulb |
| Christopher Sholes | Invented the typewritter. |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone |
| Telephone and typewritter | Affected office work created jobs for women. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines met in Promontory Utah. |
| George Pullman | Built sleepers and other railroad cars. |
| Munn v. Illinois | States won the right to regulate RR to benefit farmers and consumers. |
| Interstate Commerce Act | Established right of gov. to supervise RR. |
| ICC | 5 member Interstate Commerce Act to regulare RR. |
| Andrew Carnegie | His compnay produced the largest portion of US steel. |
| Vertical Integration | Process of buying out suppliers to control raw materials. |
| Horizontal Integration | Gaining control over suppliers to limit competition. |
| Social Darwinism | Applying the theory of survival of the fittest to businesses. |
| John D. Rockefeller | Used a trust to gain control of the oil industry. |
| Robber Barrons | Carnegie, Morgan, Rockefeller |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | Made it illegal to form a trust. |
| National Labor Union | Formed by Ironworkers. |
| Labor Union Issues | Safety, Wages, 8 hr. day, equal pay, child labor. |
| Samuel Gompers | led the Cigar Makers Internationl Union |
| American Federation of Labor | Led by Gompers focused on collective bargaining. |
| Eugene Debs | Labor leader for skilled and unskilled workers |
| Industrial Workers of the World | Called "Wobblies" Miners, lumbermen, dock workers |
| Haymarket Affair | Strike scene where a bomb was used. Turned public against unions. |
| Homestead Strike | Against Carnegie Steel - Nat'l Guard called in. |
| Pullman Company Strike | Company laid off workers and cut pay; didn't cut cost of rent. |
| Mary Harris Jones | United Mine Workers of America leader. |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory | Lack of fire safety equipment led to many deaths - unsafe conditions. |
