quiz 8

Pool

a group of people available for work when required or considered as a resource.

Populists

a member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people.

J.P. Morgan

an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.

Trust

confidence placed in a person by making that person the nominal owner of property to be held or used for the benefit of one or more others.

John D. Rockefeller

One of the great entrepreneurs in American history, J.D. Rockefeller became the world's richest man and the first U.S. billionaire. Rockefeller was an oil baron who founded the Standard Oil Company and persuaded over 32 competitors to sell out to him.

Wright Brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright, American mechanics and inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who achieved the first sustained flight of a heavier-than-air machine — what we today call an airplane. Their flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.

Farmers Alliance

The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in the 1870s and 1880s.

National Labor Union

The National Labor Union (NLU) was the first national labor federation in the United States. Founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1873, it paved the way for other organizations, such as the Knights of Labor and the AFL (American Federation of Labor). It was led by William H. Sylvis.

Sherman Anti Trust Act

landmark federal statue in the history of the United states anti trust law

rebate

partial refund to someone who has paid too much money for tax, rent, or a utility.

Andrew Carnegie

was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

Alexander Graham Bell

was a Scottish-born [N 3] scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.

Henry Ford

was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.