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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 | Became one of the riches men in the world |
John D. Rockefeller | Standard oil Co. controlled 90% of the oil industry -monopoly. One of the richest men in world |
George Westinghouse | Westinghouse Electric Co. - 1896. Developed AC |
William Randolph Hearst | Developed newspaper, Owned most of the newspaper in US by 1900- monopoly |
Madame C.J. Walker | First African American women 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 and the workers were trapped inside. 150 people died, mostly young women |
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 |
Strike | workers refuse to work to try to force business to meet their demands |
Mary Harris Jones | helped lead the United Mine Workers, She was known as "Mother Jones' |
Labor Day | created by the labor unions to honor the workers in America |