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Scottish immigrant, self-made man in steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
He built a railroad empire
Who is “Commodore” Vanderbilt?
Ruthless oil tycoon
Who is John D Rockefeller?
Carnegie sold his business to him
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Term for when rich people give their money away to help society
What is philanthropy?
Big railroads that linked the east coast with the midwest
What are trunk lines?
They made sleeping cars
What is the Pullman Company?
Where the transcontinental rr was completed
What is Promontory Point Utah?
The two main ethnic groups that built most of the railroads
Who are the Chinese and the Irish?
Discounts given by RR companies that were often shady deals.
What are rebates?
He invented a process that made steel more durable
Who is Henry Bessemer?
The Wizard of Menlo Park- lightbulbs and the phonograph
Who is Edison?
His work with electrical currents made electricity more practical
Who is Nikola Tesla?
He is given credit for inventing the telephone
Who is Alexander G. Bell?
He invented a camera that was affordable to the common folk
Who is George Eastman?
A nationwide store
What is a chain store?
Departments that specialize in advertising and figuring out what people will buy
What is marketing?
Philadelphia’s first big department store
What is Wanamaker’s?
Along with Montgomery Ward, The other huge company to use mail- order to sell merchandise
What is Sears and Roebuck?
He opened the first 5 and 10 cent store
Who is F.W. Woolworth?
Labor unions were linked with these radicals who hated all forms of government
Who are anarchists?
This geographic location was the early center of the oil industry
What is Western PA?
This Southern State was one of the centers of the iron/steel industry
What is Alabama?
In a trust, stockholders gave up this
What is voting rights/control?
Secretive union whose seal is pictured below
Who are the Knights of Labor?