The 1800s was a time of great inventionslabor unionscorporationsindustriessweatshopSelect your answer, including the light bulb by Alexander Graham BellAndrew CarnegieJohn D. RockefellerImmigrantsThomas Alva EdisonSelect your answer, an electric train lamp by Lewis Latimer, and the telephone by ImmigrantsAndrew CarnegieJohn D. RockefellerAlexander Graham BellThomas Alva EdisonSelect your answer.

The two leading industries at the time were steel making and oil production. Alexander Graham BellJohn D. RockefellerAndrew CarnegiecorporationsThomas Alva EdisonSelect your answer started new steel mills, and sweatshopJohn D. RockefellerThomas Alva EdisonAlexander Graham BellAndrew CarnegieSelect your answer went into oil refineries. Large businesses, or inventionscorporationsindustriessweatshopImmigrantsSelect your answer, were developed. Some corporations had complete control of entire corporationsindustriessweatshopImmigrantslabor unionsSelect your answer.

industriessweatshoplabor unionsImmigrantscorporationsSelect your answer worked in many of the factories of these new industries. They worked long hours under dangerous health conditions and were paid low wages. In 1911 the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York burned, and 146 women and girls were trapped in the sweatshopcorporationslabor unionsindustriesImmigrantsSelect your answer and died. To fight for better working conditions, workers began to organize into groups called Immigrantssweatshopcorporationslabor unionsindustriesSelect your answer. Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, which helped to get labor laws passed that ended child labor, shortened work hours, and made employers pay for injuries on the job.