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Industrialism in US
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Bessemer | Developed a process to make steel stonger |
| Andrew Carnegie | Starts to make steel in Pittsburgh, PA. Became one of the richest men in the world |
| John D. Rockefeller | Standard oil company controlled 90% of the oil industry- monopoly |
| George Westinghouse | Westinghouse electric company, Developed AC (Alternating Current) |
| William Randolph Hearst | Developed newspaper business. Owned most of the newspaper in US by 1900 |
| Madame C.J. Walker | First African american woman to become a millionaire |
| J.P. Morgan | Wealthiest and most powerful banker in the U.S. during the industrial age |
| Natural Resources | From nature, not made by people. Examples: iron, coal, oil, timber, water |
| 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. 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. Was known as Mother Jones |
| Labor Day | Created by the labor unions to honor the workers in America |
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