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Industrialism in U.S
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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