**Chapter 6 Vocab Industrialization Flashcards
(18 cards)
located outside of the city (living in the country)
Rural
in the city
Urban
he used the steam engine to extract oil
Edwin L. Drake
iron ore - steel which leads to… mass-production of steel
Bessemer process
an inventor of the phonograph, a camera, and the lightbulb
Thomas Alva Edison
he invented the type writer
Christopher Sholes
created the first telephone (super important)
Alexander Graham Bell
railroad that stretches a crossed the United States and a crossed the continents (from the Atlantic to the Pacific)
Transcontinental Railroad
he built a manufacturing factory for the pullman sleeper car
George M. Pullman
a federal law that regulates the railroad industries
Interstate Commerce Act
a company controlling the market by controlling/owing all of the raw materials
Vertical integration
a company controlling a market by merging with their competitors
Horizontal Integration
survival of the fittest
Social Darwinism
passed by Congress and prohibited illegal trusts
Sherman Anti-trust Act
an alliance of trade and craft unions
American Federation of Labor
nicknamed the “Wobblies”
radical trade union advocating socialism
Industrial Workers of the World
a concern for help of human welfare and advancement
Philanthropy
process of a society changing from agricultural to manufacturing
industrializaiton
