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42 Cards in this Set
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Credit Mobilier
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name for scandal in construction company that bribed gov officials into not investigating conrruption.
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Trunk Lines
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four railways that link E seaports w/ traffic of great lakes and western rivers.
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Railroad Gauge
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distance between inner sides of heads of two rails make up single railway line.
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J. Edgar Thomson
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Built the fourth Trunk like with Thomas Scott.
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Thomas Scott
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built the fourth trunk line with J. Edgar Thomson
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J P Morgan
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banker who took lead in railroad-ing. efficient, helped bring railroads back.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Railroads, took over NY Central and track from NY to Bost. to Chic.
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JD Rockefeller
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Business man from Cleveland took over Oil
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Andrew Carnagie
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Took over Steel, did everything himself, first bil dollar company
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Island Communities
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communities/workplaces that had groups of people that were seperate from eachother and did not spread into others.
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American Railway Association (est time zones in America)
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made all rails same measurements and organized diff time zones to organize railway zones.
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George Pullman
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first user of passenger car that allowed PEOPLE to travel comfortably across rails overnight.
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Vertical Integration
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single company owns and controls entire process from beginning to end.
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Horizontal consolidation
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one company for each part of process
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Union/Central Pacific
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Union-built westaward and Central built Eastward to form Transcontinental
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Transcontinental
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railroad that connected East and West coasts. Joined in Oregon
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Bessemer Process
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Process of making steel from iron
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Trusts
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1881 formed by Samuel C.T. Dodd nine trustees to hold/control/manage all properties in company.
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Knights of Labor
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accepted everyone, thought that workers/employers should be on same side
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US steel corporation
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first bil. dollar corporation; previously run be Carnegie before he sold it.
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AFL
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American Federation of Labor; only skilled workers avoid politics and work for specific practical goals.
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Henry Clay Frick
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worked for Carnegie, cut wages 20% at homestead steel plant. sent private army at protesters &ended up causing mini battle.
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Homestead Strike
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caused when people protested Frick's wage cutting and ended up making people question whether benefits of industrailization enough for prices paid.
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Lochner V NY
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Sup Court Case that forbade NY from regulating how many hours a baker could work.
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Graham Bell
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invented telephone
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Chinese Exc. Act
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Forbade any Chinise Immigrants from entering country (lasted for 10yrs)
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Haymarket Riot
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Riot in Chicago in which pay cuts caused employees to be mad, they were locked out of company and the riot got violent. someone threw bomb.
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N Security companies
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followed lead of reockefeller in purchasing stocks from other companies and merging
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Pullman Strike
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one of largest strikes in history of Am. protest layoffs, high reants, and wage cuts
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George Eastman
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create Kodak camera, first time anyone can photograph
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Thomas Edison
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greatest inventor ever; phonograph, harness electricity for use in daily life.
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Chain Store
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companies that opened more than one of same store in different areas.
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Mail Order Catalogs
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people could look through catalogs and order products through the mail rather than going to store.
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Rise in Advertising
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first agency is N.W. Ayer and Sons (phillie) roatary press help alot (more papers faster).
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Muller V Oregon
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Supreme Court case where laundry room owner make female employee to stay for more than ten hours, he was fined and he took it to S.C. he lost.
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Brandeis Brief
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from Mulle V. Oregon, help show the idea that law related to social reform not just judicial
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Holden V Hardy
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court uphold law that limited work hours for miners.
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Great RR Strike of 1877
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one of largest strikes, concerned railway workers and their discontent
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Upton Sinclair
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wrote "The Jungle", in 1906. tackled meatpacker issue
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The Jungle
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written in 1906 by by Upton sinclaire about meatpacking issue
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Jacob Riis
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wrote 'how the other half lives" about diference between skyscrapesrs and poor people's lives.
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Cyrus Fields
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improve transatlantic cable linking telegraph networks betwween Europe and U.S
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