Second Industrial Revolution

Second Industrial Revolution

Created wealth and success

Andrew Carneige

Greatest steel baron, used vertical integration

Tammany Hall

Democratic Party Machine the stole millions of $ from NYC

Grover Cleveland

First POTUS with 2 non-consecutive terms

John D. Rockefeller

Horizontal Integration, turned standard oil into a monopoly

Edwin Drake

First person to successfully drill for oil

Pendleton Act

Civil test to serve in govt, merit system

James Garfield

Short term, spoils system, assassinated

George Pullman

Made the sleeping car

Vertical Integration

One company controls multiple steps of the production process

Thomas Nast

Took Tweed down, political cartoonist, created Rep/Dem symbols

Boss Tweed

Leader of Tammany Hall machine

Bessemer Process

Made making steel cheaper and easier

Ulysses L. Grant

POTUS during the Credit Mobilier Scandal

Horizontal Integration

Working a one stage of production and working with your competitors

Standard Oil

Monopoly that many presidents were hesitant to break up until the administration of William Howard Taft

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Largest/Most Important Railroad baron

Department Stores

Stores that featured many different products

George Eastman

Invented the Kodak Camera

JP Morgan

Leader of the banking industry