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31 Cards in this Set
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Bessemer process
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Method if steel making that burned off the impurities in molten iron ith a blast of hot air.
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Edwin L. drake
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Used a steam engine to drill oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859
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Elijah McCoy
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Made a significant contribution 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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The central pacific and union pacific railroads were joined to create a single rail line from Omaha to the pacific ocean.
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Trunk lines
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Major railroads
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George Westinghouse.
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Developed the compressed air brake.
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Telegraph
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Communicating over wires with electricity.
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Alexander graham bell
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Inventor of the telephone
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Thomas Edison
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Invented the telegraph that could send up to four messages over the same wire simultaneously.
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Lewis latimer
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Edisons assistant, who was also a skilled draftsmen
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Horatio Alger jr.
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Published a popular series of novels that reflected the increasing importance played on individualism.
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Free enterprise
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Belief that the economy would prosper if business were left free from government regulation Amd allowed to compete in a free market.
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Communism
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When an individual ownership of property and the means of production are owned by everyone in the community
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Social Darwinism
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The theory that society progressed through natural competition.
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Corporation.
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Where organizations raise money by selling shares of stock I the company.
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Capitalism
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Private businesses ran most industries and competition determines how much goods cost and workers are paid.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Steel baron urged people to invest in stocks he had.
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Monopoly
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When a trust gains little or no control over an industry.
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Vertical integration
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companies that provided the materials and services upon which enterprises needed
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John D. Rockefeller.
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One founder of the standard oil company.
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Horizontal integration
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One companies control of other companies producing the same product.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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A pioneer of the railroad industry.
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George Pullman.
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Designed manufactured railroad cars that made long distance rail travel more comfortable.
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Sherman antitrust act
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Outlawed all monopolies and trusts that reined 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 male machinist and mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania.m
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Mary Harris jones
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Organized strikes, marches, and demonstrations towards the labor movement.
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Great upheaval
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A year of strikes and violent labor confrontations
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Anarchists
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People who suppose all forms of government
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American federation of labor
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A new union founded by samual Gompers in 1886, organized independant craft unions into a group that worked to advance the interests of skilled workers.
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