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Industrial Revolution |
A major change in an economy marked by the introduction of power driven machines |
A change in the entire process of production of manufactured goods |
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Natural resources |
Raw materials supplied by Nature that come from the earth the water or the air and are used to produce Goods |
Materials that come from nature |
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Factory system |
A system of manufacturing in which all the materials machinery and workers are required to manufacture a product assembled in one place |
One place where things are produced |
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Transportation |
Any method of getting to one place to another including cars railroad steam ships Bridges and canals |
Cars railroad steam ships Bridges and canals |
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Transcontinental Railroad |
A railroad connecting the West and East coasts of the United States |
Railroad west east coast |
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Craftsman |
Skilled worker |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Is scottish-born American industrialist and a philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Street company in 1892 by 1901 his company dominated the American steel industry |
Domination steel industry Monopoly |
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Thomas Edison |
An American inventor best known for inventing the light |
Light bulb |
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John D Rockefeller |
An American industrialist that founded the Standard Oil Company at one point you control 90% of the oil business one of the largest monopolies in history |
Oil big Monopoly |
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JP Morgan |
The highly successful Banker who created JP Morgan Banking and investment firm bought u.s. steel from Andrew Carnegie and made it into an even larger Corporation |
Banker bought Steel company from Carnegie |
