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28 Cards in this Set
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Who made the automobile cheaper and faster by using the assembly line?
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Henry Ford
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What government document protects inventor's rights?
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Patent
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What did Mark Twain call the late 1800? This symbolized how the weath of a few hid society's problems.
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Guilded Age
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What type of business is owned by investors who buy a part of the company through shares of stock?
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A Corportation
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What did workers form to try and get better working conditions for themselves?
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Labor Unions
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What is it called when a company wipes out its competitors and controls and industry?
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A monopoly
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Name 5 reasons why labor unions went on strike?
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Better wages, shorter working hours, safer working conditions, health care and vacation time.
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Who established a monopoly of the oil industry?
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John D. Rockefeller
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What industry is associated with Detroit?
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Automobiles
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What industry is associated with Chicago?
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Meat Packing
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What industry is associated with New England?
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Textiles
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What industry is associated with Pittsburg?
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Steel
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Labor unions were able to grow because of what?
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Big Businesses and lack of concern for the worker
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Who was the leader of the Pullman strike, whom the government put in jail?
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Eugene V. Debs
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What was an efficient new technique for making steel?
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Bessemer
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What is the growth of cities called?
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Urbanization
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What inventor foune several ways to use electricity including the light bulb and the phonograph?
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Thomas Edison
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What is a place where workers labor for long hours under poor conditions for low pay?
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Sweat shop
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Who made his fortune in the steel industry?
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Andrew Carnegie
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What do you call a person who gives large sums of money to charity?
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philanthropist
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What do you call run down, over-crowded apartment buildings in the city where many immigrants lived?
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tenements
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The use of strikes by workers made most Americans associate labor unions with what?
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Violence
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What do you call a legal body created to hold stock in many companies, often in the same industry?
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A Trust
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Who was the labor leader who helped form a new national oganization of unions called The AFL/American Federation of labors?
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Samual Gompers
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What Strike occurred at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill in PA and results militia to escort nonunion workers to work for 4 months?
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The Homestead Steel Strike
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Name factors that influenced growth of industry in US
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increased immigration, new inventions, plentiful natural resources, improved transportation
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What decreased because of the violence during the Haymarket Affair?
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Knights of Labor
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What do you call someone who became wealthy through dishonest means like bribery, cheating, during late 1800's?
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A robber baron
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