This person used vertical integration to reduce costs and charge higher prices to competitors

These people were considered heroes as they invested their own money in a product to make profit

He would eventually found the Knights of Labor in 1869 to include all workers of any trade

In 1890, this act was put in place to restrain trade or commerce in several states due to trusts

Not so much about "survival of the fittest" but rather whoever was the wealthiest was the most "fit"

He would have more than 1,000 patents and eventually invent the lightbulb

This oil tycoon could not buy out his competitors in Ohio so he created a trust

In 1876, this inventor would patent the telephone that strung more then 34,000 miles of wire

This practice kept workers working long hours in poor working conditions and attracted mainly women.

It started in Europe and would later be used by labor activists because of the economic and political philosophy "that favors public instead of private, control of property and income"

In 1844, he perfected the telegraph technology with the process to send messages over wire now known as Morse Code

This event caused both railroad and mail delivery to halt as 300,000 workers walked off their jobs

A process in which made it easier to purify iron easier that resulted in lightweight but strong steel

As markets and businesses expanded, this term would be developed as it defined as something that would be shared by groups of people

These German philosophers would expand the ideas of socialism and wrote the pamphlet: Communist Manifesto

In 1859, Edwin Drake would drill this natural resource and has been since used world wide.

A practice in which workers gathered together in a group to demand better wages and better working conditions that often led to strikes.

Even though industries were doing well, workers were not earning enough and had poor working conditions which resulted for them to form this type of group

He started in the steamboat industry and eventually got into the railroad. He felt it was cheaper for his competitors to pay to relocate him

This protest occurred in Chicago but unfortunately went out of control as a bomb went off which caused dozens of policemen and protesters to be killed.