Unit 3- Key people

Henery Flagler

American financier and partner of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., in establishing the Standard Oil Company. Flagler also pioneered in the development of Florida as a U.S. vacation centre, and owner of multiple hotels in FL. Was responsible for merging several smaller railroads together to formed the Florida East Coast Railroad

J.P. Morgan

American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.

John D. Rockefeller

American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.

George Pullman

An american industrialist and inventor. Pullman invented the Sleeping car, a luxurious railroad coach designed for overnight travel. In 1894 workers at his Pullman's Palace Car Company initiated the Pullman Strike, which severely disrupted rail travel in the midwestern United States and established the use of the injunction as a means of strikebreaking

Eugene V. Debs

Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States

Henery Ford

Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production

Jan Matzeliger

Jan Matzeliger was an inventor of Surinamese and Dutch descent best known for patenting the shoe lasting machine, which made footwear more affordable. This invention mechanized the process of attaching the heal of the shoe to the rest of the shoe, making it possible to make as many as 700 shoes a day; 10 times more than the current production rate

Lewis Latimer

Lewis Howard Latimer was an American inventor and patent draftsman for the patents of the incandescent light bulb, among other inventions.

Andrew Carnegie

Scottish-born Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. He became a dominating force in the steel industry until he sold his Carnegie Steel company to J.P. Morgan for $480 million. Carnegie then devoted himself to his philanthropic work; which he gave more than $350 million

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) was a self-made multi-millionaire who became one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was a critic of Democratic Representative "Boss" Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine

Samuel Gompers

Was the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL); it is to him, as much as to anyone else, that the American labor movement owes its structure and characteristic strategies. His careful leadership of labour interests earned Gompers a reputation for conservatism. In a period when the United States was bitterly hostile to labour organizations, he developed the principles of "voluntarism," which called for unions to exert coercion by economic actions—that is, through strikes and similar means to enact change.

Boss Tweed

known as "Boss" Tweed, was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State

Madame C.J. Walker

was "the first Black woman millionaire in America" and made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women.

Elijah McCoy

was a Canadian-born inventor and engineer of African American descent who was notable for his 57 US patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines

Alexander Graham Bell

was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone

Garrett Morgan

was an African-American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a three-position traffic signal and a smoke hood the first version of the gas mask

George Westinghouse

was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry

Thomas Edison

was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor.[1][2][3] He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.[4] These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world

Samuel Morse

was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy

Wilbur and Orville Wright

were two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane