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industrialism in U.S
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Bessemer | developed a process to make steel stronger |
| Andrew Carnegie | starts to make steel in Pittsburgh,PA. Became one if the riches men in the world. |
| John D. Rockefeller | Standard oil Co. controlled 90% of the oil industry Monopoly |
| George Westinghouse | Westinghouse Electric Co. 1896 developed AC |
| William Randolph Hearst | Developed newspaper business. Owned most of the newspapers in the US by 1900 |
| Madame C.J. Walker | First African American woman to become a millionaire |
| J.P. Morgan | Wealthiest and most powerful banker in US during the industrial age. |
| Natural Resources | from nature not made by people Ex.: Iron,coal, 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. |
| Lewis Hine | led the movement against child labor. |
| labor union | organized groups working to gain improved working conditions |
| Samuel Gompers | form the American Federation of Labor(AFL) |
| strike | workers refuse to work to try to force businesses to meet their demands. |
| Mary Harris Jones | helped lead the united Mine workers She was known as "Mother Jones" |
| Labor day | created by the labor unions to honor the workers in America. |