industrialization (chapter 16) crossword puzzle

John D. Rockefeller

His company would control most of the country’s oil refineries by eliminating competition

Cornelius Vanderbilt

He used his millions earned from a steamboat business to merge local railroads into the New York central railroad

Vertical integration

This is when a company controls every stage of te industrial process from mining raw materials to transporting finished products

Henry Bessemer

He is best known for his discovery in making high quality steel

Social Darwinism

Survival of the fittest should be applied to the market place

Sherman anti-trust act

Prohibited any “contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in retstraint of trade or commerce

Advertising

This promoted a consumer economy and also created a consumer economy and also created a consumer culture

Transcontinental railroad

This tied california to the rest of the country

Gospel of wealth

The belief that the wealthy had a god-given responsibility to carry out projects of civic philanthropy for the benefit of society

Andrew Carnegie

He was an immigrant who worked his way up to become the superintendent of a Pennsylvania company

Interstate commerce commission

At first this was ineffective but later, after congress expanded its power, it would be used to protect the public interest

Transatlantic cable

This made it possible to send messages across the sea in minutes

Chinese exclusion act

Prohibited Chinese laborers from immigrating to the US. Was in effect until 1965

JP Morgan

He, along with other bankers, took control of bankrupt railroads and consolidate them

Thomas Edison

His first invention was a machine for recording votes

Adam smith

He argued that business should be regulated, not by government, but by the “invisible hand” of the law of supply and demand

Great railroad strike

One of the worst outbreaks of labor violence in the 19th century took place during an economic depression when railroad companies cut wages to reduce costs

Five and ten cent store

Woolworth store

Alexander graham bell

He invented the telephone

Hay market affairs

The knights of labor was the most visible union during the 1880s but lost popularity and membership due to this event

Railroads

The nations first big business