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30 Cards in this Set
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Who built first skyscraper?
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William Jenney
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Who invented the telephone?
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Alexander Graham Bell
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What is the term used for a firm that has bought out all the competitors?
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Monopoly
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What is the theory that applies to the term, less suited individuals or firms will not survive?
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Social Darwinism
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Who started the Grange?
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Oliver Hudson Kelley
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What is the name of the town where the transcontinental railroads met?
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Promontary, Utah
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What is the name of the Supreme Court Case that upheld the Granger Laws?
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Munn vs. Illinois
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What's the term when one company buys out the stock of another company?
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Merger
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What two companies were responsible for building the first transcontinental railroad
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Union Pacific
Central Pacfic |
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When companies producing similar products merge it is called
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horizontal intergration
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Who invented time zones?
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C.F. Dowd
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What's the name of the man who made steel industry the largest industry in the country by 1901?
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Andrew Carnegie
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Who was known for dominating the oil industry?
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J. D. Rockefeller
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Who invented the typewriter?
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Christopher Sholes
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This man is responsible for developing barbed wire.
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Joseph Glidden
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Three factors that help lead to the Industrial Revolution after Civil War
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Population boom
Resources Government |
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Construction Company that charged 2-3 times as much to build railroad tracks
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Credit Mobilier
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What was passed by Congress
in 1877 that reestablished authority over railroads? |
Interstate Commerce Act
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What made it illegal to form a Trust to prevent free trade?
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Sherman Anti-Trust
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Men of wealth-negative name
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Robber Barons
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The Sherman Anti-Trust was easy to enforce? (T /F)
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False
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5 man panel set up to supervise railroad activity
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ICC
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Inventions that opened up new jobs for women
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Typewriter
Telephone |
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Name of the man who drilled for oil using a steam engine
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Edwin Drake
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Man who distilled kerosene from oil
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Abraham Gesner
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Who purchased Carnegie steel business?
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J. P. Morgan
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Buy out suppliers and transporation system-
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vertical intergration
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process where you inject air into molden iron to make it stronger
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Bessemer Process
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What % of Carnegie's wealth did he donate to charity?
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90%
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Who invented sleeping care?
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Pullman
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