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Individuals to know
Industrial and Urban
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Henry Ford | assembly line payed his workers more so they would buy his cars every mans' car: Model T ford |
| Rockefeller | founded Standard Oil at 21 vertical and horizontal integration bought up all of his competition |
| Jacob Riis | wrote "How the Other Half Lives" |
| Jane Adams | co-founded settlement house with Ellen Starr |
| Elisha Otis | invented the safety elevator |
| Andrew Carnegie | immigrant steel making vertical integration |
| Florence Kelly | pushed for reforms in sweatshops got a law passed for working hours of women and preventing child labor |
| Samuel Gompers | Leader of American Federation of Labor |
| Louis Sullivan | architect that set the tone for vertical cities skyscrapers |
| Leland Stanford | massive amount of money to Stanford big business owner |
| Alexander Graham Bell | patented the telephone dubbed the talking telegraph |
| Edwin Drake | found oil in Titusville, Penn. discovered how to extract oil from the ground using a steam engine to act as a pump |
| Wright Brothers | plane in Kittyhawk, NC worked in a bike shop in Ohio |
| Terrance Powderly | the president of KOL |
| Frederick Law Olmstead | landscape architect who helped design central park |
| Frederick Taylor | his idea was that he should view laborers as interchangeable parts |
| Grover Cleveland | president sent troops into the pullman strike |
| Amandeo Giovanni | immigrant who founded the Bank of Italy now the bank of america |
| Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst | revolutionized the newspaper by using cartoons |