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Industrialzation
Question | Answer |
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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. Rockfeller | Standard oil Co. controlled 90% of the oil industry. |
George Westinghouse | Westinghouse Electric Co. - 1896. Developed AC. |
William Randolph Hearst | Developed newspaper business. Owned most of the newspaper in the US by 1900-. |
J.P. Morgan | Wealthiest and most powerful banker in the U.S. during the Industrial Age. |
Natural Resources | From nature, not made by people. Ex iron, coal,oil,timber, and water. |
Human Resources | People who work to produce goods and services. |
Capital Resources | Tools, machines, money that companies use to produce goods and service. |
Monoply | When one company has control of an industry. |
Sweatshop | Hot cramped workshop. |
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 Haris Jones | Helped lead the United Mine Workers. She was known as Mother Jones. |
Labor Day | Created by labor unions to honor the workers in America. |