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What is Bessemer process?
Efficient method of making steel; developed by british inventor Henry Bessemer and American William Kelly in the 1850's.
Who is Edwin L. Drake?
was the one that used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
made a significant contribution on the industrial use of oil.
What is a patent?
is a guarantee to protect an inventor's rights to make, use, or sell the invention.
What is a transcontinental railroad?
is a railroad that crossed the continental United States; completed in 1869.
What are trunk lines?
are major railroads that connected to outlying areas by feeder or branch lines.
Who is George Westinghouse?
was the one that developed a compressed-air brake.
What is a telegraph?
is a machine patented by Samuel Morse in 1837 that sent messages over long distances by using electric current to transmit a system of dots and dashes over wire.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
in march 1876 the talking telegraph or telephone had an even greater impact.
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
was another pioneer of communications technology.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
was the one that developed a globe supporter for the electric lightbulb in 1882.
What is capitalism?
is a Economic system in which private business runs most industries, and competition determines how much goods cost and workers are paid.
Who is Horatio Alger Jr.?
published a popular series of novels that reflected the increasing importance placed on individualism.
What is free enterprise?
Belief that the economy will prosper if business are left free from government regulation and allowed to compete in a free market.
What is communism?
Political theory that proposes individual ownership should not be allowed, but rather all people should collectively own property and the means of production.
What is social Darwinism?
Theory adapted by philosopher Herbert Spencer from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution; argued that society progressed through competition, with the fittest rising to positions of wealth and power.
What is corporation?
Company that sells shares of ownership, called stock, to investors in order to raise money.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
urged them to invest in stocks as he had.
What is monopoly?
Exclusive economic control of an industry.
What is vertical integration?
that is he acquired companies that provided the materials and services upon which his enterprises depended.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
was the one that developed a globe supporter for the electric lightbulb in 1882.
What is capitalism?
is a Economic system in which private business runs most industries, and competition determines how much goods cost and workers are paid.
Who is Horatio Alger Jr.?
published a popular series of novels that reflected the increasing importance placed on individualism.
What is free enterprise?
Belief that the economy will prosper if business are left free from government regulation and allowed to compete in a free market.
What is communism?
Political theory that proposes individual ownership should not be allowed, but rather all people should collectively own property and the means of production.
What is social Darwinism?
Theory adapted by philosopher Herbert Spencer from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution; argued that society progressed through competition, with the fittest rising to positions of wealth and power.
What is corporation?
Company that sells shares of ownership, called stock, to investors in order to raise money.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
urged them to invest in stocks as he had.
What is monopoly?
Exclusive economic control of an industry.
What is vertical integration?
that is he acquired companies that provided the materials and services upon which his enterprises depended.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
was the one that developed a globe supporter for the electric lightbulb in 1882.
What is capitalism?
is a Economic system in which private business runs most industries, and competition determines how much goods cost and workers are paid.
Who is Horatio Alger Jr.?
published a popular series of novels that reflected the increasing importance placed on individualism.
What is free enterprise?
Belief that the economy will prosper if business are left free from government regulation and allowed to compete in a free market.
What is communism?
Political theory that proposes individual ownership should not be allowed, but rather all people should collectively own property and the means of production.
What is social Darwinism?
Theory adapted by philosopher Herbert Spencer from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution; argued that society progressed through competition, with the fittest rising to positions of wealth and power.
What is corporation?
Company that sells shares of ownership, called stock, to investors in order to raise money.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
urged them to invest in stocks as he had.
What is monopoly?
Exclusive economic control of an industry.
What is vertical integration?
that is he acquired companies that provided the materials and services upon which his enterprises depended.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
one founder of the standard oil company followed a course similar to Andrew Carnegie's
What is horizontal integration?
one company's control of other companies producing thr same product.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
was a pioneer of the railroad industry.
Who is George Pullman?
was one of the most successful railroad giant.
Who is Sherman Antitrust Act?
which outlawed all monopolies and trusts that restrained trade.
What are knights of labor?
are more successful early national union.
Who is Terence V. Powderly?
is an Irish Catholic machinist and the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, became its leader.
Who is Mary Harris Jones?
was the one who played prominent roles in the union .
What is Great Upheaval?
Year of intense worker strikes and violent labor confrontations in the United States.
What is a Haymarket Riot?
Incident in which a bomb exploded during a labor protest held in Haymarket Square in Chicago, killing several police officers.
What are Anarchists?
people who oppose all forms of government.
What is a American Federation of Labor?
a new union founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886.
What is Eugene V. Debs?
supported the Pullman strikers.