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industrialism in U.S
Term | Definition |
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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 richest men alive. |
John D.Rockefeller | stander oil Co. controlled 90% of the industry - monopoly |
George Westinghouse | Westinghouse Electric Co. Developed AC |
William Randolph Hearst | Developed newspaper business Owned most of the newspaper in US by 1900- monopoly |
Madame C.J. Walker | First African American women to become a billionaire |
J.P. Morgan | wealthiest and most powerful banker in U.S. 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 | why 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 women |
Lewis Hine | led the movement against child labor |
labor union | organized groups working to gain improved working conditions |
Samuel Gompers | Led unions to join together and 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 in the known as mother jones |
labor day | created by the labor unions to honer the workers in america |