Chapter 6 Apush Terms

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Edwin L Drake

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.Edwin L Drake was famous for finding new ways of producing oil from ground

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Bessemer Process

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.was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel

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Thomas Alva Edison

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.was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world

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Christopher Sholes

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.he developed the first modern typewritter in 1868

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Alexander Graham Bell

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.was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.

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Transcontinental Railroad

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.a railroad network of tracks that crosses a continental land mass, with terminal at different oceans or continental borders.

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George M. Pullman

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.was an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car

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Credit Mobiller

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.American railroad construction company setup by the Union Pacific Railroad to build the First Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s

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Interstate Commerce Act

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.United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices

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Andrew Carnigie

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.a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist.

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Vertical Horizontal Integration act

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.Vertical integration is the degree to which a firm owns its upstream suppliers and its downstream buyers. Horizontal integration means the merger of firms at the same stage of production (in the value chain) in the same or different industries

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Social Darwinsim

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.a pejorative term used for various late nineteenth century ideologies which, while often contradictory, exploited ideas of survival of the fittest

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John D. Rockefeller

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.an American oil magnate. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy

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samuel gompers

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.an English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history

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american federation for labor (AFL)

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.was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States

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eugene v. debs

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.an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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industrial workers of the world

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.an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict.

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Mary Harris jones

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.a prominent American labor and community organizer, who helped co-ordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World