capital

1
capital

• Money for investment in industry

2
George M. Pullman

• Developed a luxury sleeping car for overnight

3
philanthropy

• The use of money to benefit a community

4
Standard Oil Company of Ohio

• Organized by John D. Rockefeller

5
George Eastman

• Invented the Kodak camera

6
Pittsburgh

• Leading producer of steel in the U.S.

7
Time zones

• Developed in order to coordinate train schedules

8
Knights of Columbus

• Formed in 1869 to protect workers rights

9
Assembly line

• Allowed mass production of goods

10
consolidation

• Large companies expand by buying smaller
  companies or driving them out of business

11
pools

• Secret agreements among railroad barons that
  eliminated competition

12
Child labor

• Children under the age of 16 who worked in
  factories and in agriculture

13
Henry Ford

• Began designing cars at his own company in 1903

14
monopoly

• Total control by a single producer

15
Alexander Graham Bell

• Invented the telephone

16
corporation

• A company that sells stock to the public to raise
  capital

17
Thomas Edison

• Invented the light bulb and designed power plants

18
Haymarket

• Site of a riot among striking workers that
  resulted in the deaths of several people

19
Factors of production

• Land, labor, and capital

20
Railroad barons

• A few powerful individuals who controlled rail
  traffic