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32 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 turn out in one week
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Edwin L. Drake
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He used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859.
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Elijah McCoy
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He made a significant contribution to the industrial use of parts of a machine while it was running.
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Patent
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a guarantee to protect an inventor's rights to make, use, or sell the inventions
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Transcontinental railroad
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Railroad that crossed the continental United States; completed in 1869
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George Westhouse
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He developed a compressed air brake
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telegraph
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Machine patented by Samuel Morse in 1837 that sent messages over long distances by using electric currents to transmit a system of dots and dashes over wire
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Alexander Graham Bell
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He patented the " talking telegraph" or telephone in 1876
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Another pioneer of communications technology.
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Hortatio Alger Jr.
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He published a popular series of novels that reflected the increasing importance placed on individualism.
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free enterprise
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Belief that the economy will prosper if businesses are left free from government regulation and allowed to compete in a free market
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capitalism
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Economic system in which private business runs most industries, and competition determines how much goods cost and workers are paid
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Horatio Alger Jr.
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He published a popular series of novels that reflected the increasing importance placed on individualism
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Free Enterprise
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Belief that the economy will prosper if business are left free from government regulation and allowed to compose in a free market
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Communism
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Political theory that proposes individual ownership should not be allowed, but rather all people should collectively own property and the means of production
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Social Darwinism
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Theory adapred by philosopher Herbert Spencer from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution; argues that society progressed through competition, with the fittest rising to positions of wealth and power
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Corporation
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Company that sells shares of ownership, called stock, to investors in order to raise money
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Andrew Carnegie
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Steel company, very smart , donated $350 million
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Trust
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A group of companies turn control of their stock over to a common board of trustees.
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Vertical integration
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Ownership of business involved in each step of manufacturing process
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John D. Rockefeller
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One founder of the Standard Oil Company, followed a course similar to Andrew Carnegie's.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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A pioneer of the railroad industry, he operated a profitable shipping business
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George Pullman
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One of the most famous rail road giants
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Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Outlawed all monopolies and trusts that restrained trade.
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Knights of Labor
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A more successful early national union
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Terence V. Powderly
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an Irish Catholic machinist and the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, became its leader
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Marry Harris Jones
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She played prominent roles in the union
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Great Upheaval
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Year of intense workers strikes and violent labor confrontations in the United States
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Haymarket Riot
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Incident in which a bomb exploded during a labor protest held in Haymarket Square in Chicago, killing several police officers
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Anarchists
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People who oppose all forms of government
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American Federation of Labor
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A new union founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886.
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Eugene V. Debs
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Head of the american Railway Union, he supported the Pullman strikers.
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