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36 Cards in this Set
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Bessemer process
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This method could produce more steel in one day than the older techniques could.
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Edwin L. Drake
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Used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859
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Elijah McCoy
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Made a sigficiant constribution to the industrial use of oil.
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patent
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a guarantee to protect an inventors rights to make use or sell the invention
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Transcontinental Railroad
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completed in 1869
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trunk lines
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major railroad crossed the great plains to the pacific coast.
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westinghouse
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devoloped a compressed air break
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Telegraph
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most significnt advances in communication in the 1800's
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Alexander graham Bell
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Demonstrated his invention at the philedelphia convention
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Thoamas Alva Edison
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Another pioneer of communications technology
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Lewis Lamiter
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Skilled draft men
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Capitalism
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private buisness ran most indrustries and competition determines how much goods cost and workers are paid
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Horatio Alger Jr.
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Published a popular series of novels that reflected the increasing importance placed on individualism.
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Free Enterprice
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free market, supply, economy, demand and profit
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Communism
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Proposes that individual ownership of property should not be allowed.
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Social Darwinism
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Buisness leaders began to embrace the emerging theory.
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corporation
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Buisnesss leaders therefore turned to another form of buisness orginization
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Andrew Carnegie
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Urged them to invest in stocks as he had
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trust
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a group of colonies turn control of their stock over to a common board of trust
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Monopoly
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trust of gains exclusive controls of an indrustry
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Vertical intergration
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Aquired companies that provided the materials and services upon which his enterprise depended.
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John D. Rockefeller
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Founder of the standard oil company
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Horizontal Intergration
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Companys control of others companies producing the same product
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Was a pionner of the railroad indrustry.
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george Pullman
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Most successful railroad giants
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Which outlawed all monopolies and trust that restrained trade.
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Knights of Labor
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succesful early nation union.
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Terence v. Powderly
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Irish Catholic marchist and the mayor of Scranton Pennsylvania
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Mary Harris Jones
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Played prominent roles in the union
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knights of labor
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more succeful early nation union
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terence v. powderly
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Irish Catholic machinist male orginization
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Harris Jones
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played importent role in the union
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Great upheavel
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labor confrontions
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anarchists
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people who opppose all forms of governments
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American Federation of Labor
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New union founded by samuel gompers in 1886
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Eugene v. Debs
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supported the pullman strikers
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