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21 Cards in this Set
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successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil in Pennsylvania
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Edwin L. Drake
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involved injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities
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Bessemer Process
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est the world's first research lab
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thomas alva edison
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invented the type writer
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christopher sholes
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invented the telephone
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alexander graham
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a railroad line linking the atlantic and pacific coasts of the us
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transcontinental railroad
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made traveling for riders of a train easier and more comfortable
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pullman
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stockholders created railroad construction company and charged more to pocket the profits
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credit mobilier
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supreme court where states won the right to regulate the railroads
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munn vs illinois
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est the right of the fed gov't to supervises railroad activites and est the ICC
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interstate commerce act
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ruler of the railroads
owned the railroad company, and steel companies |
andrew carnegie
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a process in which you buy out his supplies in order to control the raw materials and transport systems
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verticle integration
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compainies producing similar projects merge
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horzontal integration
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big companies is surviival of the fittest
good companies will last bad ones wont |
social DArwinism
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est the standard oil company
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rockefeller
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made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade b/w states or with other countries
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sherman anti trust act
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led one union to join in with oither craft unions
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gompers
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focused on bargining to reach written agreements
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american federation of labor
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industrial union that had a strike vicorty in 1912; all kinds of workers
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industrial workers of the world
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attempted to form the american railway union
turned to socialism |
eugene v debs
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woman leader who supported the great strike
prominent orangizer in woman's labor movement |
mother jones
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