**Chapter 6 Vocab Industrialization Flashcards
located outside of the city (living in the country)
Rural
in the city
Urban
he used the steam engine to extract oil
Edwin L. Drake
iron ore - steel which leads to… mass-production of steel
Bessemer process
an inventor of the phonograph, a camera, and the lightbulb
Thomas Alva Edison
he invented the type writer
Christopher Sholes
created the first telephone (super important)
Alexander Graham Bell
railroad that stretches a crossed the United States and a crossed the continents (from the Atlantic to the Pacific)
Transcontinental Railroad
he built a manufacturing factory for the pullman sleeper car
George M. Pullman
a federal law that regulates the railroad industries
Interstate Commerce Act
a company controlling the market by controlling/owing all of the raw materials
Vertical integration
a company controlling a market by merging with their competitors
Horizontal Integration
survival of the fittest
Social Darwinism
passed by Congress and prohibited illegal trusts
Sherman Anti-trust Act
an alliance of trade and craft unions
American Federation of Labor
