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Industrialism in U.S
Term | Definition |
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Henry Bessemer | developed a process to make steeel stronger |
Andrew Carnegie | starts to make steel in Pittsburgh, PA. Became one of the riches men in the world |
John D. Rockefeller | His standard oil Co. controlled 90% of the oil industry-monopoly |
George Westinghouse | Westinghouse Electric Co. Developed AC [ Alternation Current} |
William Randolph Hearst | developed newspaper business, owned most of the newspapers in the 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 | resources that are from nature not 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 | fire broke out and 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 | formed 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 in the Appalachian mountains. Known as " Mother Jones" |
Labor Day | created by the labor unions to honor workers in America |