history vocab

Edward Drake

Successfully used a stem engine to drill for oil

Bessemer Process

Method to make steel stronger by removing the impurities in it

Thomas Alva Edison

Perfected the incandescent light bulb and a system for producing and distributing electoral power in 1876

Christopher Sholes

In 1876 he invented the typewriter

Alexander Graham Bell

Invented telephone in 1876

Transcontinental Railraod

Railroad line linking the Atlantic and pacific coast of the US, completed in 1869

John D. Rockefeller

Leader in oil industry

Social Darwinism

Survival of the fittest-strongest will dominate

J.P. Morgan

Powerful banker

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Most successful railroad consolidator

Robber Barton’s

Term used to describe the powerful industrialists

Monopoly

When an industry is controlled by one company

George Pullman

Manufactured sleepers and other railroad cars

Munn vs Illinois

Supreme Court case that gave states the right to regulate railroads for the benefit of formers and consumers

Interstate Commerce Act

Established the right of the us government to supervise railroad activities

Andrew Carnegie

Leader in the steel industry

Vertical integration

Joined business engaged in different but related activities

Horizontal Integration

Business engaged in the same activity joined together

Sherman Antitrust

Broke up monopolies

Samuel Gompers

Leader of AFL

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

Major labor union of craft workers

Eugene Debs

Leader of the American railway union

Mary Harris Jones

Mother Jones - powerful activist for women’s labor rights