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35 Cards in this Set
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The new industrial revolution was based on power supplied by
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the electric engine
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light.
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which resourse was least important to the new age?
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wood
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house.
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which invention was intoduced at the Philly Contennial Exposition of 1876?
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the telephone
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ring..
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what 3 things did Tom Edison invent?
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phonograph, motion pic cam, incandescent light bulb
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phone. snap. bright
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what occupation was open to immagrent women in the late 1800's?
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factory worker.
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workers hard
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who delveloped the concept of social darwinism ?
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Herbert Spencer
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who drilled the first oil well
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edwin l drake
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&& josh.
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introduce railroad sleeping cars
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geo m pullman
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pull it mannn!
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invented the electric telegraph
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sam F. B. moorse
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mooooo.
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ivented more efficient steel production
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henry bessemer
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bless.
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name givin to buisness people of the new age
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mergers
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stock
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negetive label givin by critics
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robber baron
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robbbed.
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refuns that railroad companies were forved to give to Rockefeller ir wanted his buisness
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rebates
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refunds.
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business organization in which two companies are managed by a group of ppl
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interlocking directorate
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two companies INTER -
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buisness org that uses its made stock to buy control of other companies
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holding company
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holdd up
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unified group. specially when vote is taken
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block
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legoos
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a farmer who favored decreasing railroad rates and rural isolation
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Granger
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hermione
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org responciple for building of the Union Pacific Railroad
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Credit Mobilier
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cards. baddd
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the application of scientific discoveries to industry
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technology
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computers.
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with the invention of electricity came improved communication through
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telegraphs
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not telephone. but tele -
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the telephone was responsible for
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more women entering the work force
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women.
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Chris Sholes invented the
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typewriter
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woooooo keyboard.
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what was Dakes Folly?
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oil
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car energy.
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by 1900 the largest industry was
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railroads
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chooo chooo
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who developed the plan for uniform time?
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C F Dowde
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downnnn.
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the union pacific built tracks westward from where?
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westward from omaha
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yamaha.
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the RR industry received a boost in its labor force from
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war vets
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military
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the central pacific RR hired
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chinese immagrants
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chinkkk
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the transcontinental railroad was completed
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in 1890
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like poppops fathers birth yera ?
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company that built the Union Pacific Railroad was
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credit mobilier
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cardss badd
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the original purpose for the Grange was to help farmerrs
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have social and educational opportunities
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the interstate commerce act was on attempt to profide
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federal regulation of RR rates
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regulation of ..
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Carnegie built an empire in the ____ industry
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oil industry
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roooooooom rooom
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which is one was businesses grew?
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merger
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stockss.. starts with M
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Rockefeller founded
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standard oil
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roooooom rooooom
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