The process of changing from an overall basic farming economy to an overall industrialized one:

The use of MACHINES to replace human or animal labor: *

Inventor of the first telephone

Inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera, and improved the light bulb. He was known as the “Wizard of Menlo Park, and received 1,093 patents.

A product or business with many buyers but only ONE seller:

A NEGATIVE nickname for the industrialists of the late 1800’s that suggested they were getting rich by negatively using workers, natural resources, and the government:

Captain of Industry who made his fortune in the RAILROAD business:

Captain of Industry who made his fortune in the STEEL business:

Captain of Industry who made his money in the OIL business:

A group of workers who have banded together to improve working conditions or get higher wages:

A workplace that pays low wages, has unsafe working conditions, and demands work that is almost impossible to achieve:

A group that organized many different labor unions into one powerful group:

An economic period when many people cannot work, prices drop, and there is very little trade or investment:

Strike by steel workers at the Homestead Mill that gained national attention to its violent end:

Captain of Industry who made his fortune in banking and then went on to create General Electric.

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