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16 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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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 contribution to the industrial use of oil.
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Patent
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Is a guarantee to protect an inventor's rights to make use, or sell the invention.
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Transcontinental railroad
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Was completed in 1869, it went from Omaha, Nebraska to the Pacific Ocean.
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truck lines
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or major railroads, crossed the Great Plains to the Pacific coast.
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George Westinghouse
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Was developed a compressed-air brake.
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Telegraph
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Made in the 1800's made by Samuel F. B.
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Alexander Graham Bell
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In March 1876 talking telephone had a bigger impact.
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Was another pioneer of communications technology.
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Lewis Latimer
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He was skilled draftsman.
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Capitalism
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Which private business run most industries.
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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 enterprise
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free-market economy.
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communism
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This theory proposes that individual ownership of property should not be allowed.
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Social Darwinism
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Business leaders began to embrace the emerging theory.
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