Study Guide

Industrial America:

The Rise Of Big Business

NOTE: If you can answer these questions satisfactorily, you should do well on this section of the first exam. The material below consists of important material from the lecture. Questions on the test will be largely taken from this material.

Terms (definition and significance):

“Yankee Ingenuity”

Captains of Industry

holding company

trust

Bessemer and Open Hearth techniques

Mesabi Range

Andrew Carnegie

vertical integration

Edwin Drake

John D. Rockefeller

Standard Oil Company

Standard Oil Trust

standardization of parts

Westinghouse air brakes

Pullman cars

George Pullman

transcontinental railroad

Panic of 1873

Depression of 1893

J. P. Morgan

boss politics

political patronage

spoils system

National Labor Union

Knights of Labor

Uriah Stephens

Molly Maguires

Railroad Strikes of 1877

American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers

Haymarket Square Riot 1886

Anarchists

John Peter Altgeld

Homestead Strike

Henry Clay Frick

Pinkerton Detectives

Pullman Strike

American Railway Workers Union

Eugene V. Debs

Questions to Think About:

What were the six reasons for American industrial success?

What is a monopoly and what were the different types of monopoly?

What was the role of inventiveness in the industrial revolution?

Describe the rise of the steel industry.

Describe the rise of the oil industry.

Describe the railroad industry.

What was the nature and characteristics of urbanization in the US?

What was the trend of population growth in the US?

What was the role and nature of immigration in late nineteenth century US?

How did American workers fare during the rise of big business?

What is the history of the union movement from 1860-1900?