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Private police force hired by employers to break up strikes.
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Pinkertons
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inventor who developed the idea of a central electrical power station
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Edison
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location of labor rally that turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb inot a police formation
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Haymarket Square
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location of a strike at Carnegie steel plant that resulted in violence
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Homestead
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inventor who established American Telephone and Telegrah company
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Bell
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industrialist who preached "Gospel of Wealth"
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Carnegie
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political radicals who oppose all government
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anarchists
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strike breakers who replace striking workers
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scabs
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made the idustrial growth of the late 1800's possible
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technological changes
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symbol of American ingenuity
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building of Brooklyn bridge
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vertical consolidation
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controlling all phases off the steel business
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industrialists of big business usually admired
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philanthropic activities
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growing discontent among workers
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increased interest in the labor movement
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a group of small unions, each devoted to a single craft
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american federation of labor
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caused favtory workers to endure hash conditions in late 1800's
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ample supply of available workers
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affected the distribution of weatlth by
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putting the wealth in the hands of a few industriults
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was not a direct effect of the invention and aplication of electricity
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wider use of trusts and cartels
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employers sometimes replace striking workers with other workers called
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scabs
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according to this, as more items are prduced the cost per item goes down
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economy of scale
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the philosophy that advocates collective or government ownership of property is called
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socialism
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the american federation fo labor wanted employers to participate in
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collective bargaining
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political radicals who poopse goverment are called
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anarchists
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the merger of 2 or more businesses that sell the same product is an example of
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trust
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when a company has no competition for the marketing of its product the company is said to have created a
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monopoly
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