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21 Cards in this Set
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Edwin L. Drake |
successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, that removing oil from beneth the earths surface became practical. |
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Bessemer Process |
a technique involved injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities |
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Thomas Alva Edison |
became a pioneer on the new industrial frontier when he established the worlds finest research labratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey |
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Christopher Sholes |
invented the typewriter in 1867 and changed the world of work |
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Alexander Grahm Bell |
invented the telephone in 1876 to open the way for communication networks |
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transcontinental railroad |
a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869 |
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George M. Pullman |
built a facory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois prairie |
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Credit Mobilier |
construction company that the stockholders in the Union Pacific Railroad formed in 1864 |
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Munn vs. Illinois |
the Supreme Court upheld the Granger laws by a vote of 7 to 2 |
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interstate commerce |
this act reestablished the right of the federal govt to supervise railroad activites and establish a five-member interstate commerce commision for that purpose |
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Andrew Carnegie |
was one of the first industrial moguls to make his own future |
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vertical integration |
a pricess in which Carnegie bought out his suppliers coal fields and iron mines, ore freighters, and railroad lines in order to control the raw materials and transportation system |
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horizontal integration |
carnegie also attempted to buy out competing steel producers. in this process, companies producing similar products merge |
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Socail Darwinism |
an economical and social philosophy supposedly based on the biologist Charles Darwins theory of evolution by natural selection holding that a system of unreestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest |
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John D. Rockefeller |
established the Standard Oil Company |
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Sherman Antitrust Act |
made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countires |
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Samuel Gompers |
led the Cigar Makers international union to join other craft unions in 1886 |
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American Federation of Labor |
focused on collective bargaining, or negotiation between representatives of labor and management to reach written agreements on wages, hours, and working conditions |
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Eugene V. Debs |
attempted to form such an industrial union the American Railway Union |
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Industrial Workers of the World |
a group of radical unionists and socialists in Chicago organized the IWW, or the Wobblies |
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Mary Harris JOnes |
the most prominent organizer in the womens labor movement |
