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20 Cards in this Set
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Bessemer process
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This method could produce more steel in one day than 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.
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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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Railroad reaching from Omaha to the pacific.
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George westingheart
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Created the air break
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Telegraph
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Way to communicate, like a phone.
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Alexander graham bell
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Invented telephone
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Thomas Edison
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Invented telegraph
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Lewis latimer
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Expert in Latin law
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Social Darwinism
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Ranks by blood line
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Corporation
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Fir of business organization
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Andrew carnegie
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Urged to form stocks.
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Trust
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Compony turn control to a board of trustees
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Monopoly
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If trust gains exclusive control of an industry
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Vertical integration
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Own everything and sell for less
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John d Rockefeller
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Big multimillionaire
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Horizontal integration
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Opposite of vertical Integration
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George Pullman
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Designed the railroad home
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Sherman anti trust act
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Out pawed monopolies
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