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17 Cards in this Set
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The leader of the knights of labor?
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Terrence V> Powderly
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The leader of the AFL??
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Samuel Gompers
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Which work union was successful?
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The AFL
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What was the SHerman Antitust act?
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Passed in 1890, it prohibited manopolies and trusts
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Name SIX big railroad inventions.
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1. standard gauge
2. air brakes 3. pullman 4. refrigerated cars 5. car couplers 6. steel tracks |
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Name two ways of making steel
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the open hearth process
the bessemer process |
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WHat did Henry Ford invent? What was his biggest selling car called?
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The assembly line and the MOdel T
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WHo created the telephone?
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Who invented the telegraph?
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samuel morse
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Who was Ida Tarbell
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She muckbreaker who wrote tuhe book on Standard Oil
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What methods did John D. Rockefeller use to build his company?
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Horizontal Integration and Rebates.
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Name the two biggest railroad barons.
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Cornelius Vandebilt and Leland Stanford
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What is a pool?
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To eliminate competition by assigning a company to one part of an area so you can make your rates as high as you want.
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Who was Mary Harris Jones?
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Fought for rights in the Haymarket Riot
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What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
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in 1911 148 people died in the fire because they got locked in.
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When and what happened in the Pullman Strike?
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In 1884, the Pullman Cra COmpanies workers went on strike
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WHat is vertical integration?
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Owning all parts of production
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