Industrial Revolution
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- What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
- The Second Industrial Revolution is a period of explosive growth in manufacturing and an industry in the late 1800s
- What was the Bessemer Process?
- The Bessemer Process was a less expensice easier way to make steel.
- What is a patent?
- A patent is an exclusive right to manufacture or sell and invention.
- When did Alex Graham Bell invent the telephone?
- He invented the telephone on March 1876.
- When did Tomas Edison invent the lightbulb?
- He invented the lightbulb in 1879.
- Who was Oliver and Wilber Wright?
- Oliver and Wilber Wright were bicycle makers who began experimenting with airplane designs in the 1890s.
- What is free enterprise?
- Free enterprise is a system in which businesses operate free from government involvement.
- What are entrepreneurs?
- Entrepreneurs are people who organize new businesses.
- What are corporations?
- Corporations are companies that sell shares of ownership, called stocks, to investers in order to raise money.
- What is Vertical Integration?
- Vertical Integration is the ownership of businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process.
- What is Horizontal Integration?
- Horizontal Integration is the ownership of all businesses in a particular field.
- What is a Trust?
- A trust is a legal arrangemant grouping several companies under one board of directors who eliminate competion and regulate production.
- What is Shermans Antitrust Act?
- Shermans Antitrust Act is a Law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trust that restrained trade.
- What is collective bargaining?
- Collective bargaining is the process in which union leaders negociate with factory owners on behalf of workers in a particular business or industry for better wages and working conditions.
- What is Kingts of Labor?
- Nights of Labor is the first national labor union in the United States; organized in 1869 and included workers of different races, gender, and skills.
- What is the Haymarket Riot?
- The Haymarket Riot is an incident in which a bomb exploded during a labor protest held in Haymarket Square in Chicago, killing several police officers.
- What is the American Federation of Labor?
- The American Federation of Labor is one of the first large labor unions in the United States; organized in the 1880s by Samuel Gompers as an association of individual skill craft unions.
- What is the Homestead Strike?
- THe Homestead Strike is a strike at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel factory in Pennsylvania that arrupted in violence between strikers and private dectectives.
- What is the Pullman Strike?
- The Pullman Strike is a Railroad strike by workers at Pullman's Palace Car Company that stopped trafic on many railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs.
- What is the National Grange?
- The National Grange is a social and educational organization founded in 1867 to gain more political representation for farmers and to improve their living standards.
- What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
- The Interstate Comerce Act is a law that provided uniform national regulations for trade between the states.
- What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
- The Interstate Commerce Commision is a commission created by the Interstate Commerce Act to insure that railroads charged fair rates and treated all shipping customers fairly.
- What is Free coinage?
- Free coinage is a type of monetary system in which both gold and silver were coined; the value of paper money was worth a specific amount of gold or silver.
- What is a gold standard?
- A gold standard is a type of monatary system in which money in worth a specific amount in gold.
- What is the Sherman Silver Purchace Act?
- The Sherman Silver Purchase Act is a law that increased the amount of silver purchased by the U.S. government for coinage.
- What is the Farmer's Alliances?
- The Farmer's Alliances are political groups formed by farmers that worked to ellect candidates favorable to farmers.
- What is the Populist Party?
- The populist party is a national political party formed in 1891 that supported free coinage of silver, labor reforms, immigration restriction, and government ownership of railroads and the telegraph and telephone systems.
- Who is Jonh D. Rockefeller?
- John D. Rockefeller founded several philanthropic organizations.
- What did Mary Harris Jones do?
- She organized many strikes among workers.
- What did William Jennings Bryan claim?
- He claimed that with the free coinage of silver all necessary reforms will be possible.