ss 2 Flashcards
(35 cards)
The Progressive Era
The gilded age
Gilded age
While society looked great on the surface, it was plagued with many ills
Henry Bessemer and Willam Kelly created
Steel process
Edwin Drake discovered
Oil
Thomas Edison created
Lightbulb
Alexander Graham Bell created
Telephone
Pullman Car Company
Passenger cars for travel
Who founded Pullman Car company
George Pullman
American Railway Union
A strike in respnse to reducing wadges.4,000 workers went on strikes.However Grover Cleavland called in the US army to shut it down(with guns)
Does Industrilization benifit the South or North
SOUTH, because they only had a few rescorses
Who created American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Collective Barging
Where a union negotiates on behalf of all workers in a union to provide one,clear, unified voice
Strike
A refusal to work which puts a halt to the production
What was affected by the homestead strike
Carnigie Steel company
Who did carnigie hire to end homested strike
Pinkerton
Monopolies
a large business that has complete ownership or control of something
Robber Barons
industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages; drove competitors out of business by selling their products cheaper than it cost to produce it.
Scottish immigrant who turned pisttisburg,Pa into a steel center
Andrew Carngie
How did Carnigie run compition out of bussniss
by selling oil cheper
Americas first billionare
Rocketfeller
J.P. MOrgan bought….
J.P. MOrgan bought Carnigies steel compny to control railroad lines
What did Vanderbilt control
NY railroads
What is the sherman anti trust act
federal law that committed the American government to opposing monopolies; prohibits contracts, combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade.
Poupulism
a support for concerns of ordinary people
