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Industrialism in U.S
Term | Definition |
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Henry Bessemer | developed a process to make steel stronger and More affordable |
Andrew Carnegie | Make steel in Pittsburgh, PA. Became one of the riches men in the world |
John D. Rockefeller | Standard oil Co. controlled 90% of the oil industry - Monopoly |
George Westinghouse | Westinghouse Electric Co. Developed AC |
William Randolph Hearst | Newspaper. Owned most of the newspapers in US by 1900's |
Madame C.J. Walker | First African American woman to become a millionaire |
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 | when one company has control of an industry |
Sweatshop | hot, cramped workshops |
Triangle Shirtwaist Company | a fire broke out ans 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 business 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 |