Unit 3-The Age of Industry Study Guide

Important People, Terms, and Places (know what it is and its significance)

You should be able to write an essay discussing the following:

1. How the inventions of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, and others changed life in America
2. The Effect The Railroads had on the development of other industries such as oil, steel, and coal.
3. The rapid growth of cities and the problems created by urbanization
4. The growth of big business and the role played by Captains of Industry/Robber Barons like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
5. The growth of organized labor and the differences between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
6. How the workplace changed during this period and the conditions workers faced.

Important Dates to Remember

1854 – Bessemer Process developed

1859 – Charles Darwin write “The Origin of Species”

1867 – Alfred Nobel Produces Dynamite

1869 – Workers organize the Knights of Labor

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell invents Telephone

1879 – Edison invents incandescent bulb

1882 – Rockefeller forms Standard Oil

1883 – First Skyscraper built in Chicago(over ten stories)

1886 – The Haymarket Riot, American Federation of Labor formed

1890 – The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1893 – The Pullman Strike

1903 – Wrights make first powered flight

1908 – Henry Ford mass produces Model T