Unit 5 Science And Technology Flashcards
(30 cards)
Samuel slater
An early English-American known as the “father of the American industrial revolution”
Textile mills
A textile mill for making cotton textiles
Muckrakers
Writers who tried to show the public the wrong doing of politics and businesses
Triangle factory fire
In Manhattan March 15 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steal industry in the late 19th century
John D. Rockefeller
Made his money in the oil business, used a monopoly to gain his riches.
Jacob Riis
Author of how the other half lives
Upton Sinclair
Wrote a book called the jungle, this attacked the meat industry
Robber barons
Negative title given to the rich industrialists by their critics, they mainly built huge castles like mansions
Captains of industry
The glamour nice name the rich gave themselves to make them feel better
Tenement houses
Run down and often over crowded apartment houses, especially in a poor section of a city
Knights of labor
Secret labor organization formed in 1869, to secure and maintain the rights of working men
CIO
Chic information officer, a title given to the person in charge of information technology
NAFTA
North American free trade agreement, agreement among the u.s. Canada, and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries.
EU
European Union, it envisions the eventual establishment of common economic, foreign, security, and justice policies.
Collective bargaining
Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees
Scabs
A worker who works in place of strikers
Strikes
A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a formal protest
Outsourcing
Obtain goods/services from an outside or foreign supplier
Henry ford
An American industrialist, the founder of ford motor company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production
Robert Oppenheimer
An American physicist who directed the laboratory during the development of the first atomic bomb
Henry Bessemer
Developed a way to make steal stronger and cheaper
Thomas Edison
Created the light bulb and helped make electricity more widely available
Eli Whitney
An American inventor best known for inventing the cotton grin
