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23 Cards in this Set
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Credit Mobilier
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•The construction company for the Union Pacific Railroad. It gave shares of stock to some congressmen in return for favors.
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Island Communities
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tied people together, brought in outside products, fostered greater interdependence and encouraged economic specialization.
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Truck Lines
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intended to link eastern seaports with the rich traffic of the Great Lakes and western rivers.
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railroad gauge
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distance between the inner sides of the heads of the two load bearing rails that make up a single railway line
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J. Edgar Thomson
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American civil engineer, railroad executive and industrialist.
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Thomas Scott
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was an American businessman.
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JD Rockefeller
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Founder of Standard oil company. vertical/horizontal integration. invented trust, holding company
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Andrew Carnegie
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Carnegie steel. vertical integration. one time richest man
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American Railway Association
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consolidated and made railroads compatible
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George Pullman
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invented pullman passenger car
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Vertical Intergration
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company owns entire process from resource to consumer
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Horizontal Consolidation (Integration)-
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monopoly. buy out competition or run them out of business
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Union Pacific and Central Pacific
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first transcontinental railroad, met in utah
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Transcontinental Railroad
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railroad that went from pacific to atlantic, connected nation
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Bessemer Process
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steel making process, stronger, lighter , more flexible
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Haymarket Riot
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was a workers meeting then it got violent when someone threw a bomb and firing ensued 8 officers died
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Northern Securities Company
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The Northern Securities Company was an important United States railroad trust formed in 1902 by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan, J. D. Rockefeller, and their associates
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Pullman Strike
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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894
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George Eastman
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United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography
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Thomas Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb
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Chain Store
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one of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise
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Mail Order Catalogs
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you know what they are they just started being sent out in this time period
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Rise in Advertising
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more advertising stared taking place in this period it was kinda the first advertising
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