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42 Cards in this Set
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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 (est time zones in America)-
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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 (Integration
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)- 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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Haymarket Riot
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was a workers meeting then it got violent when someone threw a bomb and firing ensued 8 officers died
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.Northern Securities Company
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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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Pullman Strike
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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894
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George Eastman
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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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Thomas Edison
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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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Chain Store
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one of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise
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Mail Order Catalogs
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you know what they are they just started being sent out in this time period
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Rise in Advertising
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more advertising stared taking place in this period it was kinda the first advertising
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island communities
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communities before mass railroads that were selfsufficient
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credit mobiler
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company made by union pacific used to obtain large government contracts
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trunk lines
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big time train lines between large areas
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railroad gauge
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width of track
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j edgar thomson
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built pann railroad
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thomas scott
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built pennsylvania railroad
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jp morgan
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big time banker, bought out railroads, steel, etc
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cornelius vanderbilt
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shipping leader, joined railroad business, merged railroads
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trusts
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way to control group of related companies, invented by rockefeller
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knights of labor
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labor union, accepted all
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us steel
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jp morgan, bought carnegie steel, first billion dollar company
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afl
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labor union, accepted craftsman only, samuel gumpers
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henry clay Frick
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carnegies partner, cut wages at homestead, started riot
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homestead strike
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wages cut 20% at steel plant, riot, battle between workers and detectives, frick almost killed
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cyrus field
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laid trans atlantic cable
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alexander graham bell
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invented telephone
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chinese exclusion act
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chinese laborers couldn't imigrate, 1882
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muller v oregon
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case involving female workers
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brandeis breif
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supreme court case that siad women werent equal to men in labor
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holden v hardy
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upheld law limiting hours for miners, due to danger
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lochner vs new york
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dismissed law limiting bakers hours cause its not dangerous
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great railroad strike of 1877
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stikre of railroad workers, 100 people died, $10 million property damage
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upton sinclair
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wrote the jungle about conditions in chicago meat packing factory
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"the jungle"
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written by sinclair about conditions in chicago meat packing factory
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jacob riis
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reformer, helped impoverished in NYC
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