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Industrialism
Idustrialism in the US
Question | Answer |
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Henry Bessemer | developed a process to make steel stronger and more affordable. |
Andrew cranegie | made steel in Pittsburgh Became one of the richest men in the world |
John D. Rockfeller | standard oil controlled 90% of the oil industry- monopoly |
George Westinghouse | Westinghouse Electric Co. |
William Randolph Hearst | Newspaper Owned most of the newspapers in US by 1990 |
Madame C.J. Walker | First African American woman to become a millonaire |
Natural resources | These are resources that are from nature no made by people Iron, Coal, Oil,Timber, Water |
Human Resources | People who work to produce goods and sevices |
Capital Resources | tool 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 Compony | fire broke out and workers were trapped inside. 150 workers died. |
Lewis Hine | led the movement against child labor |
labor union | organized group to gain improved working conditions |
Samuel Gompers | American Federation of Labor (AFL) |
strike | workers refuse to work or try to force businesses to meet their demands |
Mary Harris Jones | helped lead the United States Mine workers Known as Mother Jones |
Labor Day | Created by the labor unions to honor the workers in America |