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20 Cards in this Set
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Patents |
Exclusive rights to make or sell inventions |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
Patented the telephone. Scottish-born speech teacher who studied the science of sound. |
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Thomas Edison |
Invented the first commercially practical incandescent light. |
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Bessemer Process |
A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities. |
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Henry Ford |
Introduced the model T in 1908. |
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Second industrial Evolution |
A period of rapid growth in U.S. Manufacturing in the late 1800's. |
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Corporations |
or businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares. |
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Vertical integration |
Or ownership of businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process. |
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Horizontal integration |
or owning all businesses in a certain field. |
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Trust |
a legal arrangement grouping together a number of companies under a single board of directors. |
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Darwinism |
a view of society based on scientist Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. |
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Monopoly |
or total ownership of a product or service. |
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strike |
the refusal of workers to preform their jobs until employers meet their demands. |
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Collective bargaining |
all workers acting collectively, or together. Workers had a much greater chance of success in negotiating with management. |
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Labor union |
an organized association of workers often in trade or profession formed to protect and further their rights and interests. |
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New immigrants |
we're from southern and Eastern Europe |
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Old immigrants |
By the late 1800s immigrants from Northern Europe were known as... <------ |
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Tenements |
Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings |
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Sweatshops |
Because of long hours and hot, unhealthy working conditions |
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Nativists |
U.s. Citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them. |
