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Thomas Alva Edison |
Inventor an industrialist. Invented light bulb, electrical company. |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor of the telephone |
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George Pullman |
Railroad industrialist. Inventor of the sleeping car. Creator of company town. |
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Trans-continental railroad |
Railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 connecting east coast with west coast. |
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Interstate commerce act |
Act designed to limit the power of railroads and prevent them from forming monopolies. |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. |
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Sherman anti-trust act |
Act making it illegal to form trusts that interfered with free trade. |
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Samuel Gompers |
Unionist who created the American Federation of Labor. |
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American Federation of Labor |
One of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. |
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Mary Harris Jones |
A prominent American labor and community organizer, who helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World. |
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How did the growth of the steel industry influence the development of other industries? |
Steel was a necessary material for many new industries, such as the railroads, toolmaking, construction. Also, many industries were needed to support the steel industry, such as coal mining, and iron ore mining. |
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How did inventions and developments in the late 19th century affect how people worked. |
Electricity and machinery increased the need for factory workers. Workers were less valued for their skills, and were worked long and under harsh conditions. |
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Why did people, particularly farmers, demand regulation of the railroads in the late 19th century. |
Railroads abused government land grants, taking land away from farmers. They also charged high rates for transportation. |
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Why were business leaders such as John D. Rockerfeller called Robber Barons? |
They eliminated competition, then raised prices to gouge people. |
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Why did the South industrialize more slowly than the North. |
The South had a more agricultural economy with less need for factories. |
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Why did workers form unions in the late 19th century? |
Unfair hiring and unacceptable working conditions required workers to band together to improve their lot. |
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What factors limited the success of unions? |
High unemployment and low skills requirement meant that striking union workers could easily be replaced. |
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