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35 Cards in this Set
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patent
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exclusivity, royalties
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bessemer
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hot steam, innovation, impurities from steel
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Industrial society
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steel, backbone
oil, blood, electricity, energy |
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edison
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lightbulb, cheap and available, not a pure scientist, practicalz
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sholes
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typewriter womens jobs
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petroleum
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oil, edwin drake, medicine, kerosene (lamps), replaced whale oil.
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transcontinental railroad
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central pacific railroad, union pacific railroad. west to east. chinese irish, promontory point.
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improvements to railroad
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air break, sleeping cars (pullman), timezones (pacific, mountain, central, eastern), standard gauge (4'x8'1/2"), steel not iron, double tracks.
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carnegie
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90% steel, used vert integration, owned all processes. gospel of wealth (give back to society), philanthropy
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rockefeller
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oil, 90% refineries. horizontal integration.
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venderbuilt
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railroads.
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what they used
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monopolies, trusts (secret)
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rebate
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cheaper price
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drawback
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pay us for what you transport for other companies.
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pullman
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sleeping cars
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newport-rhode island
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where the rich hung out
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most dangerous jobs
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mining, steel, railroad
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capitalism
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personal businesses, not govt, competition=prices
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communism
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community, every1 is treated equally, no1 owns land, all govt
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leizei faire
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govt not involved, if it aint broke, dont fix it
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corporation
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only liable for what stock they bought, not dependent on certain owners
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partnerships
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limited income, can owe all of what you did, debts
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chicagos worlds fair
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electricity, nikola tesla
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captains of industry
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lead industry, organized it
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robber barons
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ruthless, destroy competition
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collective bargaining
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unions and their community together protesting
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mother jones
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most dangerous women on earth
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powderly
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leader of Knights of Labor
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sherman anti-trust act
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did not specify, did not have effect, precedent on future govt involvement.
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knights of labor
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men/women, black/white, skilledd/unskilled.
goals=equal pay, work, no child labor, temperance (alcohol, abuse, accidents), 8hr day, 40hr week. |
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hay market
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guiltyby association, anarchists, UNIONS, bomb,
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management
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"weapons"- blacklist, cannot work, yelling dog contract (oath), lockout (get out of the the factory), strike breakers (scabs, replacements), injunction (coourt order to go to work), public opinion (news paper cheap/daily, magazine
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homestead strike
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fired/cuts, military breaks strike.
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pullman strike
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eugene debs, strike, American Railway Union Head, all RR workers striked (paralysis)
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grover cleveland
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sent us army to break strike, pre-text (mail in danger), "Grover the good"
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