Industrialization Vocabulary

1887 law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses

• Bessemer Process

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Munn v. Illinois

A labor organization for unskilled workers, formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists

• Industrial Workers of the World

• Credit Mobiler

• Laissez- faire

• Social Darwinism

1872, This was a fraudulent construction company created to take the profits of the Union Pacific Railroad.

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Credit Mobiler

• Munn v. Illinois

He led the Pullman strike and founded the American Railway Union.

• Drake

• Deb

• Pullman

• Gompers

He was the creator of the American Federation of labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers.

• Drake

• Deb

• Pullman

• Gompers

Type of monopoly where a company buys out its competition. Used by Rockefeller and Carnegie.

• horizontal integration

• vertical integration

Type of monopoly where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution

• horizontal integration

• vertical integration

He built a steel mill empire; US Steel

• Rockefeller

• Carnegie

He was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Revolutionized the petroleum industry.

• Carnegie

• Rockefeller

• Pullman

• Gompers

1st to use steam drill for oil well.

• Drake

• Gompers

• Pullman

• Rockefeller