History Study guide Flashcards
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Which of the factors helped lead to a period of industrial growth during the late 1800s
Coal, Iron and timber (wood)
What describes the working conditions that most workers faced?
fatal jobs and harsh working conditions
How did the growth of the railroads affect the economy
They increased and were highly used and slowly became less useful over time
How did the Bessemer process improve manufacturing?
Made more products quickly, easily, and cheaply
How did the availability of electricity affect the decision of where to locate factories
Made it so that factories will not have to be near a water source and people could work later in the evenings.
Why was the interstate Commerce Act of 1887 significant?
Congress was allowed to regulate railroad over usage
What was the attitude of business leaders about government intervention
Business owners did not like it
Why did workers form Unions
To protect employees rights
What does one company control the business of all products developed?
Vertical Integration
A business that grows by purchasing other small businesses to make one big one
Horizontal Integration
How many time zones are their world wide
24
Monopolies, trusts, and horizontal and vertical integration share a goal of
increasing profits
What did social Darwinism DISCOURAGE
Government intervention
What made it possible to build skyscrapers
The use of steel made by Carneigie
WHy did a company use the credit mobilier
To raise the prices of rail cars by 2 or 3 times the original amount then keeping the extra money to themselves
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the telephone
Lewis Latimer
helped create eletric lighting
Thomas Edison
Invented the light bulb
Andrew Carnegie
Made most railroads and manufactored the most steel
John D. Rockefeller
Had the biggest oil company in America
Samuel Gompers
Leader of the AFL
Eugene Debs
President of ARU
Mother Jones
Striked for child labor laws
Christopher Soles
Invented the type writer
