As industrialists made huge profits, critics began to call them this.

In 1880, he built a factory for manufacturing railroad cars on the Illinois prairie.

The banker who headed up U.S. Steel, one of the most successful holding companies.

A refusal to work.

A company that has complete control over its industry’s production, wages and prices

The first skyscraper with a steel frame.

These laws helped to lower the corruption of the railroad companies and stockholders.

He formed the first large scale national union in 1866

In 1859, he successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

This industry became the biggest customer for steel.

In 1869, he proposed that the earth’s surface be divided into 24 time zones one for each hour of the day with the US having 4 time zones.

When railroad tracks went from the east coast all the way to the west coast.

He perfected the incandescent light bulb and later invented an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power.

In 1867 he invented the typewriter.

Developed around 1850, it involved injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities.

He created Kerosene to light lamps after he discovered how to distill the fuel from oil or coal.

The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor saw these as a last resort.

The striking workers at the Pullman strike were fired and had this happen to them.

Negotiation between representatives of labor and management.

Born to poor parents in Scotland, he became one of the first industrial moguls to make his own fortune.

The Supreme Court case which ruled that states had the right to regulate the railroads.

He used a trust to gain total control of the oil industry in America.

The idea that business leaders success and failure in business was governed by a natural law and no one had a right to intervene.

Socialism in its most extreme form.