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15 Cards in this Set
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gilded age
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the name of the yyears after the civil war. named by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
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pragmatic
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practical-minded
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unscrupulous
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a buisness pirate
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Cornelious Vanderbuilt
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a buisness pirate. NY times called him a robber baron
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capital
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money, often from bank loans
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bessemer process
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steelworks in 1886
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benefactor
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a person who gives aome form of help to benifit a person
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monopoly
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exicts when a certian person ...
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intrest
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tax to pay
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Andrew Carnieage
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av ery rich man who was born in scottland, 1835, could recite shakespere
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john d rockafeller
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scottish baptist whos mother raiseed him to be ordinary
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consumer
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person who buys
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partnership
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joining intresets
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corperation
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association of indivisuals
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tarriff
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achedual of duties
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