3.1 The Industrial Age

A process for making steel more efficiently, patented in 1856.

• Bessemer Process
• Thomas Edison
• Christopher Sholes
• Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations

• Thomas Edison
• Christopher Sholes
• Alexander Graham Bell
• George Pullman

Invented the typewriter

• Christopher Sholes
• Alexander Graham Bell
• George Pullman
• Interstate Commerce Act

Invented the telephone

• Alexander Graham Bell
• George Pullman
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Andrew Carnegie

designer and builder of sleeper cars that made long distance rail travel more comfortable

• George Pullman
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Andrew Carnegie
• vertigal integration

1887 law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Andrew Carnegie
• vertigal integration
• horizontal integration

A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.

• Andrew Carnegie
• vertigal integration
• horizontal integration
• Social Darwinism

the combining of companies that supply equipment and services needed for a particular industry

• vertigal integration
• horizontal integration
• Social Darwinism
• Monopoly

Type of monopoly where a company buys out all of its competition.

• horizontal integration
• Social Darwinism
• Monopoly
• John D. Rockefeller

theory that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle -(rich are rich because they are better)

• Social Darwinism
• Monopoly
• John D. Rockefeller
• trust