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industrialization
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Bessemer | developed a process to make steel stronger |
| Andrew Carnegie | starts to make steel in Pittsburgh, PA. became one of the riches men in the world |
| John D. Rockefeller | standard oil co. controlled 90% of the oil industry-monopoly |
| George Westinghouse | Westinghouse electric co. |
| William Randolph Hearst | developed newspaper business. owned most of the newspapers in the us by 1990- monopoly |
| j.p. morgan | wealthiest and most powerful banker in us during the industrial age |
| natural resources | from nature not made by person . ex;] iron, coal, oil, timber, water |
| human resources | people who work to produce goods and services |
| capital resources | tools, machines , (money) that companies use to produce goods and services. |
| monopoly | when one company has control of an industry |
| sweatshop | hot, cramped workshops |
| Triangle shirtwaist company | fire broke out and the workers were trapped inside 150 people died, mostly young women |
| lewis hine | led the movement against child labor |
| Samuel gompers s | form the American Federation of Labor |
| strike | workers refuse to work to try to force businesses |
| mary harris jones | helped lead the united mine workers in America. she was known as "mother jones" |
| labor Day | created by the labor unions to honor the workers in America |
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