8th Grade History ch 5 Flashcards
Who laid a transatlantic telegraph cable that link to the United States and Europe?
Cyrus Field
Who patented 35 inventions?
Granville Woods
Who built the model T and pioneered the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Who was the railroad Baron?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who was a labor union leader?
Mary Harris Jones
Who invented the electric lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
Who formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio?
John D Rockefeller
Who was a steel company owner and a great philanthropist who built more than 2,000 libraries worldwide?
Andrew Carnegie
Who developed railroad refrigerator cars?
Gustavus Swift
Who invented a small camera?
George Eastman
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What encouraged the expansion of the economy?
The fast-growing national rail system
In 1881, a group of national trade unions formed what?
The American Federation of Labor
Who took Addison’s work a step further by developing transformers?
George Westinghouse
Thomas Edison’s electric power plant lit up how many buildings in New York City?
85
The steelworkers union dwindled after the failure of what?
The Homestead strike
Anti-labor feeling grew after the bloody clash in Chicago called what?
The Haymarket riot
The US Attorney General Richard Olney ordered an injunction to stop what?
The Pullman strike
What was passed for children working in factories?
Child labor laws
Where did the Haymarket Riot take place?
Chicago
Where was the site of the first oil well?
Titusville, Pennsylvania
What is the combining of companies called?
Mergers
What is the complete control of an industry called?
A monopoly
What are partial owners of the company called?
Shareholders
