Chapter 24 - Industry Comes of Age

Southern agriculture

________ received boost in 1880s when machine- made cigarettes replaced hand- made cigarettes which ended up increasing tobacco consumption.

Gasoline-burning combustion engine

Became primary means of automobile propulsion by 1900

Thomas Edison

Invented many devices with the most well- known being the light bulb (1879)

Carnegie

Used "vertical integration" to combine all the parts of manufacturing into one organization

Buchanan Duke

Created the American Tobacco Company in 1890

Industrialization

Was slowed by northern- dominated railroad companies charging lower rates on manufactured goods moving south from north compared to manufactured goods moving from south to north

Alexander Graham Bell

Created the telephone in 1876

Rockefeller

Created Standard Oil Company in 1870

Plutocracy

Was when a government was controlled by the wealthy

Vanderbilt

________ made a lot of money, improving the Eastern railroads.

Congress

________ subsidized cost of many railroad construction projects due to high costs and risks associated with building railroads.

Kerosene

Was the first major product of the oil industry

own independence

Was an association of self- governing unions with each keeping its ________.

Typewriter

________ and telephone switchboard gave women new economic and social opportunities.

American Federation of Labor

Was founded in 1886

J.P. Morgan

Financed reorganization of railroads, insurance companies, and banks

Railroads

Stimulated the industrialization of the country in the years after the Civil War

National Labor Union

Was organized in the late 1866 with it lasting 6 years and attracting 600,000 members

Labor Day

Was created by Congress in 1894

Steel

________ was "king "during industrialization era.

Bessemer process

Simplified steel production process and reduced the price of steel

Transcontinental railroad

Was finished in 1869 which allowed for trade with Asia to increase and opened up the West for expansion