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Industrialism in US
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Bessemer | Developed a process to make steel stronger |
| Andrew Carnegie | starts to make steel in Pittsburgh, PA . Became one of the richest men in the world. |
| John D. Rockefeller | Standard oil Co. controlled 90% of the oil industry |
| George Westinghouse | Westinghouse Electric Co. Developed AC |
| William Randolph Hearst | Developed newspaper business. Owned most of the newspapers in US by 1900 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 forces businesses to meet their demands |
| Mary Harris Jones | Helped lead the United Mine Workers. Known as "Mother Jones" |
| Labor Day | Created by the labor unions to honor the workers in America |