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19 Cards in this Set
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Second Industrial Revolution |
A period of rapid growth in U.S manufacturing in the late 1800's. |
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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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Patents |
Exclusive rights to make or sell inventions. |
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Thomas Edison |
His research center in Menlo Park, New Jersey, was called an invention factory. Edison explained his practical approach to science. |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
He patented the telephone. Bell was a Scottish-born speech teacher who studied the science of sound. |
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Henry Ford |
He introduced the Model T in 1908. Ford was the first to implement the moving assembly line in manufacturing. |
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Horizontal Intergration |
The practice of a company buying out or forcing out of business, all the other companies that do the same thing it does. |
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Vertical Intergration |
The practice of owning all parts of a specific business or industry. |
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Trust |
A if national agreement between two different corporations that allow them to share resources. |
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Social Darwanism |
Social Darwanists argued that social progress resulted from conflicts in which the fittest or best adapted individuals. |
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Collective Bargaining |
All workers acting collectively , or working together searching for success in negotiating with management. |
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Strike |
The refusal of workers to preform their jobs until employees me their demands. |
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Haymarket Riot |
Strikers that threw a bomb and wounded many. |
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Labor Union |
an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union. |
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Old Immigrants |
People that lived in Europe in the late 1800s. |
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New Immigrants |
People who are from southern and Eastern Europe. |
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Tenements |
Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings. |
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Sweatshops |
Workplaces that people spent long hours and hot, unhealthy working conditions. |
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Nativists |
U.S. Citizens who opposed immigration because of suspicion. |
