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20 Cards in this Set
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cornelius vanderbilt
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was in charge of his dad's railroad business. also he was one of the thoughest railroad consolidators.
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James Hill
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canadian-born owner who finished the last major cross country railroad line in 1893.
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andrew carnegie
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incharge of the steel indrustry. he used the bessemer process. he also controlled all the phases of the steel industry. he used vertical integration.
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John D. Rockefeller
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one of the people who went to pennsylvania for oil. he formed the standard oil trust which created a monopoly.
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george pullman
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he designed a railroad sleeping car.
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henry Bessemer
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he discovered a way to make steel. he called this the bessemer process because it made steel at a lower cost.
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vertical integration
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gaining control of all the steps used to change raw materials into finished products.
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monopoly
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controls all or nearly all the business of an industry
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corporation
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business that is owned by investors.
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J.P. Morgan
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the most powerful banker of the late 1800s.
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Thomas Edison
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invented first practical incandescent light bulb. "wizard of menlo park"
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Cyrus Field
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thought of laying a cable under the ocean so that telegraph messages could go back and forth between north america and Europe.
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Henry Ford
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made the auto a part of everyday american life. he made a moving assembly line which lead to mass production.
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the wright brothers
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they owned a bike shop in dayton ohio. they had a dream of flying. Orville made the first flight. it lasted for 12 sec. the military saw that flying could help them. they made the first successful flight
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samuel gompers
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he organized a union called american federation labor (AFL)
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The triangle fire
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a fire in a clothing factory which had locked doors caused many peope to die. as a result in new york and other states approved new safety rules to protect workers.
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mary harris Jones
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protected children's rights spoke about the hard lives of children in textile mills. They called her mother jones and she cared for the workers.
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sweatshops
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workplace where people worked for long hours but for small pay most of them were young women or children.
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haymarket riot
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people at the McCormick company that went on strike and police killed four workers in the next day in protest of the killings eight more people were arrested and killed 7 police men
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collective bargaining
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the right for unions to communicate or negotiate w/ management for workers as a group.
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