The Industrial Age
How old and how long did factory workers
12 , 12 hours a day 6 days a week
What year was a telegraph cable laid across the Atlantic Ocean
1866
Pullman strike Date Location
1884 Pullman railway CarPlant
The American federation of labor Year formed Leader Major right fought for
1886 Samuel Gompers Collective bargaining
Homestead strike Date Location
1892 Homestead Pennsylvania
What happened at the triangle shirtwaist company factory in 1911
A fire broke out and people got trapped and died
William Burrough Invention
Adding machine
What did Lewis Howard Latimer Granville woods Elijah McCoy Jan E Matzeliger Have in come in
African Americans
What was George Westinghouse new technology and what did it do
Air breaks improved the system of stopping trains
telephone Inventor: Year: Description
Alexander gram bell 1876 Communication device
Factory method in which work moved past stationary workers who performed a single task
Assembly line
Henry ford used a _______ to make his model t ford
Assembly line
A new way to make large amounts of steel cheaply this is called the
Bessemer process
What does capital refer to
Capital refers to things used to make products
Collis P Huntington and Ieland Stanford founded ____________ this line connected ______ and ________ and formed part of the first _____________ _________
Central pacific California and Utah Continental railroad
Discussion between an employer and union representatives of workers over wages hours and working conditions
Collective bargaining
The practice of combining separate companies
Consolidation
Identify 3 railroad barons
Cornelius Vanderbilt James J Hill Collis P Huntington and Ieland Stanford
Combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement especially to reduce competition
Corporation
Stockholders share of a company's profits usually as a cash payment
Dividend
Why was the use of a standard gauge track important
Drove down snipping times and cost
Resources used in the production process including natural resources labor and capital
Factors of production
James J Hill built the _____________ line between __________ and states of _____________
Great northern Minnesota Washington
What made Andrew Carnegie an entrepreneur
He used the 3 factors of production to start his buisness
Court order to stop something from happening
Injunction
name the growth of railroad industries
Iron Industries Steel Coal Lumber
Name 3 things railroads carried
Iron ore Coal Timber
Eli H Janney new technology and what did it do
Janney car coplers made it easier for railroad workers to link cars
George Eastman Invention
Kodak camera
Dissatisfied workers organized into groups to seek better pay and working conditions
Labor union
Powerful buisness man who controlled a major railroad
Labor union
Three factors of production
Land labor capital
Factory production of goods in large quantities
Mass production
Haymarket riot Date Location
May 1886 Haymarket square
Combining of two or more businesses into one
Merger
Early ford car
Model T
When one buisness or person has total control of an industry that buisness or person is said to have a
Monopoly
Cornelius Vanderbilt railroad baron stretched from ______ to the _____________
NYC The Great Lakes
4 of Thomas Edison's inventions
Phonograph Motion picture projector Storage battery Lightbulb
Group sharing in some activity
Pool
George Pullman new technology and what did it do
Pullman sleeping car that changes seats that changed into beds
What happened to railroads in the last half of the 1800s
Railroads grew tremendosly which made economy grow
Discount or return of part of a payment
Rebate
Gustavas Swift new technology and what did it do
Refrigerated railroad cars allowed to ship meat and crops
telegraph Inventor: Year: Description
Samuel finky brese morse 1844 Transmits secret codes
Why were George Westinghouse's transformers important
Send electric power more cheaply over long distances
Who buys stocks
Shareholders
4 ft 8.5 inches the distance between rails agreed upon by all railroad companies
Standard gauge
Shares of ownership a company sells in its business which often carry voting power
Stock
Person hired to replace a striking worker in order to break up a strike
Strikebreaker
What was the Sherman anti trust act
The first measure passed by the US congress to prohibit trusts
What does land refer to
The land itself as well as natural resources that come from the land
Practice of combining of different companies into one
Trust
Christopher shole Invention
Type writer
People worked in
Unsafe and unhealthy conditions
John Thurman Invention
Vacuum cleaner
What does labor refer to
all the jobs that people do that are used to produce something