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21 Cards in this Set
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Edwin L. Drake
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First person to use steam engine to drill for oil
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Bessemer process
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Technique used to make steel from iron
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Inventor of the light bulb
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Christopher Sholes
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Inventor of the typewriter
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Inventor of the telephone
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transcontinental railroad
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A railroad that crosses the entire country
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George M. Pullman
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Inventor of the sleeping car
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Crédit Mobilier
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Name of company involved in stealing of railroad money
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Munn v.Illinois
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Court case that gave government right to regulate private industry
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Law granting Congress authority to regulate railroad activities
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Andrew Carnegie
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Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry
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vertical integration
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Process in which a company buys out its suppliers
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horizontal integration
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Process in which companies producing similar products merge
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Social Darwinism
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Theory that taught only the strong survived
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John D. Rockefeller
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Head of the Standard Oil Company
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Law that outlawed trusts
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Samuel Gompers
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Union leader
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Name of union led by Gompers
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Eugene V. Debs
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Leader of the American Railway Union
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Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Union of radicals and socialists nicknamed the Wobblies
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Mary Harris Jones
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Organizer for United Mine Workers
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