Essential Question: During the Rise of Industry (1865-1914), what major impact did your leader have on American Society?

General Resources

Henry Ford (Automobile/Assembly Line)

Alexander Graham Bell (Telephone)

Andrew Carnegie (Steel Industry)

Thomas Edison (Electric Light Bulb / Menlo Park)

Cornelius Vanderbilt (Railroad Tycoon)

John Pierpont Morgan (Investment Banking / U. S. Steel)

John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil)

George Eastman (Kodak Film)

Wright Brothers (Airplane)

Frederick Winslow Taylor (Industrial Engineer & Inventor)

Frank W. Woolworth (Department Stores)

Elisha Graves Otis

Cyrus Field (Transatlantic Cable / Telegraph)

Samuel F. B. Morse (Telegraph)

Cyrus Hall McCormick (Reaper / Agriculture)

George Pullman (railroad sleeping car)

Willam Cooper Procter (1862 -1934) (Ivory Soap)

Samuel Gompers (American Federation of Labor)

Terence Powderly (Knights of Labor)

Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones, Labor)

John Mitchell (President of the United Mine Workers of America 1870-1919)

George Frederick Baer

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