Industrial Revolution/Monopolies/Theodore Roosevelt

reason for industrial revolution

inventions! Mass produced!

John D. Rockefeller

First Billionaire in America, OIL

Andrew Carnegie

steel monopoly

Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt Corollary

started construction of Panama canna

progressive-trust buster

won noble-peace prize

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair wrote about meatpacking

Bull moose Party

monopoly

1 person controls a whole company

partnership

2 people own a business

Corporation

stockholders are the owners

Conglomerate

made up of several corporation

front man of Knights of Labor

Uriah Stephens

Knight of Labor

No child labor

safe working conditions

Fair salary

Roosevelt Corollary

America’s right to meddle in other countries affairs

progressives

chaining the society for the better at the time

Muckrakers

journalists like Upton Sinclair