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