The total value of all goods and services that a country produces
Drilled the 1 st oil well in Pennsylvania.
More than 17 million immigrants arrived in the U.S. between
Invented the telephone.
Invented the phonograph and the light bulb
Automatic loom allows cloth to be made faster
Allowed railroad cars to keep meat cold during transport
Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation’s economy.
One who organizes, manages and assumes the risk of a business
The 1 st of many lines that began crisscrossing the nation.
One of the most successful railroad consolidators
People who loot an industry and give nothing back.
Corrupt railroad owner who manipulated stock
Organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a person
Shares of ownership in a company
Steel entrepreneur
Owns all the different businesses on which it depends for its operation.
Standard Oil Entrepreneur
Combines firms in the same business into 1 large corporation
United all workers in a particular industry
More than 100 people died & over $10 million in railroad property was destroyed.
1 st successful labor union
Strike speeches turned to violence and a bomb was thrown
4 month strike when workers were locked out and replacement workers were brought in.
Formal court order to end a boycott
The dominant union of the 1800’s
1 st president of the AFL
Group of labor radicals- many were socialists
By 1900 women made up 18% of the workforce
Industrialization & urbanization had created many social problems
A journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in society
All party members vote for a candidate to run in the general election.
The right to vote.
1. Against child labor 2. Wanted safer working conditions 3. Sherman antitrust act:
Illegal to form trusts
Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up monopolies
Wrote the best selling book “The Jungle” about the meat packing industry.
Required federal inspection of meat shipped across state lines.
Prohibited the sale of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs