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Question | Answer |
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Who had the world's 1st research lab in Menlo's Park, NJ? | Thomas Edison |
Who's innovations made electricity safer and cheaper? | George Westinghouse |
Who invented the typewriter that changes the work place? | Chris Sholes |
The two men who invented the telephone for worldwide communication? | Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson |
bicycle makers who built the first glider? | Orville and Wilbur wright |
Who developed flexible film to use instead of heavy glass plates, allowing film to be sent to studio for processing? | George Eastman |
Who proposed the position dividing the world into 24 time zones? | C.F. Dowd |
Who built a factory town near Chicago, where his workers lived and worked making the cars he invented? | George M. Pullman |
made fortune in RRs, a steel leader, tried control the steel industry with vertical integration, symbolized growth of big business | Andrew Carnegie |
head of standard oil, a monopoly, formed a trust, controlled 90% of the refining business, huge profits paying low wages, driving his competition out of business, labeled as Robber Baron | John D. Rockefeller |
What was passed because public outraged that in 1886 supreme court ruled that states could not set rates on interstate commerce? | Interstate Commerce Act |
Social Darwinism | -Intellectual movement that came from ideas of Charles Darwin -English philosopher ,Hebert Spencer used this to explain evolution of society -no gov't regulation of business -used laissez- faire doctrine -success and failure governed by natural laws |
law passed to protect business from competition, illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states, gov't eventually stopped enforcing it b/c trust were hidden | Sherman Anti-trust Act |
National Labor Union formed by | iron maker William H. Sylvis |
Knights of Labor organized by | Uriah Stephens |
American Federation of Labor formed by | Samuel Gompers |
American Railway Unison formed by | Eugene Debs |
communism advocated by and felt that capitalism would be overthrown by communism | Karl Marx |
used steam engine to drill for oil | Edwin L. Drake |