Matching Pairs USHL U5 Industrial RevolutionsOnline version Read the cards and click on the right picture. by Andreina Farias Monasterios 1 2 3 The Robber Barons 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The Populist Party 11 12 Progressivism 13 Child Labor 26th U.S. President who launched a “Square Deal” platform to control corporations, conserve natural resources and protect consumers. Founder of a motor company, he introduced revolutionary new mass-production methods, including the world’s first moving assembly line for cars. This party advocated for government ownership of railroad and telephone companies, a graduated income tax, shorter workdays and the direct election of senators. Children could be paid less, were less likely to organize into unions and could complete woikng tasks that were challenging for adults. Social movement that pushed for greater democratization of government and the expansion of voting rights in order to reduce the power of political machines. One of the most powerful bankers of his era, he financed railroads and helped organize U.S. Steel, General Electric and other major corporations. Enterpreneurs who amassed huge fortunes while society was tarnished by poverty and corruption, causing this period to be called the Gilded Age. The Wizard of Menlo Park. Inventor of the cotton gin that revolutionized the nation’s cotton industry and strengthened slavery over the cotton-producing South. Born into modest circumstances, he founded the Standard Oil Company, which controlled some 90% of U.S. refineries and pipelines by the early 1880s. The Father of the American Industrial Revolution. Scottish-American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry before selling his company to J.P. Morgan. One of the country’s largest steamship operators who then built another empire in the railroad industry.
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