Second Industrial Revolution

A process used to remove carbon from iron to make steel.

• Bessemer Process

• Vertical Integration

• Laissez-Faire

• Iron carbon process

Inventor of the light bulb in 1879

• Lewis Latimer

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Invented the Typewriter in 1867

• J.P. Morgan

• Christopher Sholes

• Andrew Carnegie

• Lewis Latimer

Completed in 1869, it went from Ohama, Nebraska to Sacramento, California.

• The Homestead Strike

• The Telegraph

• The Telephone

• The Transcontinental Railroad

Inventor of the telephone

• Alexander Hamilton

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone

• Lewis Latimer

An African-American inventor, he worked at perfecting the light bulb by inventing a carbon filament in 1881

• Christopher Sholes

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

• Lewis Latimer

From New York, this captain of industry was a key figure in the expansion of the railroads. He linked many small railroads together to make larger ones.

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Flagler

Buying out one's suppliers in order to control the raw materials and transportation systems

• Social Darwinism

• Laissez-faire

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

Forming mergers with competetors (buying them out)

• laissez-faire

• monopoly

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

A factory started in 1880. It was located on the Illinois prairie, and it made train sleeper cars.

• The Pullman Factory

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• Knights of Labor

• The Granger Company