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17 Cards in this Set
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1.Haymarket Riot
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1. was a workers meeting then it got violent when someone threw a bomb and firing ensued 8 officers died
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2.Northern Securities Company
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2.•The Northern Securities Company was an important United States railroad trust formed in 1902 by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan, J. D. Rockefeller, and their associates. ...
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3.Pullman Strike
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3.•The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894
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4.George Eastman
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4.United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography
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5.Thomas Edison
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5.•Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb
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6.Chain Store
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6.•one of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise
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7.Mail Order Catalogs
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7. you know what they are they just started being sent out in this time period
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8.Rise in Advertising
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8. more advertising stared taking place in this period it was kinda the first advertising
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JD Rockefeller-
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Founder of Standard oil company. vertical/horizontal integration. invented trust, holding company
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Andrew Carnegie
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Carnegie steel. vertical integration. one time richest man
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American Railway Association
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consolidated and made railroads compatible
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George Pullman
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invented pullman passenger car
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Vertical Intergration-
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company owns entire process from resource to consumer
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Horizontal Consolidation
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Integration)- monopoly. buy out competition or run them out of business
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Union Pacific and Central Pacific-
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first transcontinental railroad, met in utah
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Transcontinental Railroad-
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railroad that went from pacific to atlantic, connected nation
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Bessemer Process-
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steel making process, stronger, lighter , more flexible
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