Terms & People Flashcards
(20 cards)
Edwin L.Drake
made removing oil from the earth practical by successfully using a steam engine to drill
Bessemer Process
injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities
Thomas Alva Edison
pioneer; established world’s 1st research laboratory
Christopher Sholes
invented type writer in 1867
Alexander Graham Bell
unveiled telephone in 1876
transcontinental railroad
marked spanning of the nation
George M. Pullman
built factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars
Credit Mobilier
lay track two to three times the cost
Munn vs. Illinois
Supreme Court upheld Granger laws by a vote of 7 to 2
Interstate Commerce
right for government to supervise railroad activities
Andrew Carnegie
worked his way through Pennsylvania railroad and made his own fortune
vertical integration
buy out suppliers to control raw materials and transportation
horizontal integration
companies producing similar products merge together
Social Darwinism
“natural selection”; survival of the fittest
John D. Rockefeller
joined with competing companies in trust agreements
Sherman Antitrust Act
illegal to form trust that interfered between states
Samuel Gompers
led Cigar Maker’s International Union
American Federation of Labor
focused on bargaining; negotiating
Eugene V. Debs
attempted to form an industrial union
Industrial Workers of the World
miners, lumberers, allowed blacks
