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32 Cards in this Set
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Name a few things that were needed to start the Industrial Revolution |
The agricultural revolution, new inventions, natural resources, transportation and communication, cheap labor, friendly government. (Any will work.) |
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What were some early types of transportation? What were two important companies for transportation? |
The railroad became very popular along with stagecoach. Wells Fargo and Pony Express were very prominent. |
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What was significant about time? |
The standard time system was designed. |
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John D. Rockefeller |
oil |
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Andrew Carnegie |
all steel processes |
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J. P. Morgan |
Forming steel |
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Cornelius Vanderbilt |
railroad monopoly |
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Mongomery Ward |
first mail order store |
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A. J. Sewert |
Department stores |
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John Deere |
plow |
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Henry Ford |
car and assembly line |
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Joseph Glidden |
barbed wire |
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George Eastman |
Kodak camera |
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Rudolph Diesel |
diesel engine |
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Samuel Colt |
interchangeable parts |
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Samuel Morse |
telegraph |
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A. G. Bell |
telephone |
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Thomas Edison |
electric light, phonograph, and moving pictures (and being a jerk to Tesla) |
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What is horizontal integration? Vertical? |
Horizontal is when a company takes over all companies of one specific part of production, while vertical is when they take over all parts of production. |
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What is a trust company? |
Created to administer financial assets son behalf of another. |
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What is the Sherman Antitrust Act? |
made it against the law to combine companies |
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What changes in America did the industrial revolution cause? |
Poor housing, disease spread more, high housing fees, crime increased, skyscrapers were built, education laws were changed to k-8, and more "leisure time" activities came around. |
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What two islands had many immigrants pass through to enter America? |
Ellis Island and Angel Island. |
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How did Americans born in America react to the immigration? |
They feared the new people as they were causing pay to be very cheap. |
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What was the National Origins Act? |
Only 150,000 people could enter each year and certain percentages came from certain places. Many were from Europe. |
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What was the Chinese Exclusion Act? |
Banned immigration for ten years and barred citizenship for the Chinese |
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Who created the American Federation of Labor? |
Samuel Gomper |
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Who was Eugene V. Debs? |
He was the leading organizer of unions in America |
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The Great Strike of 1877 |
workers protested wage cuts, ended by federal troops |
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Haymaker Affair |
wokers protesting, bomb thrown into police line and protesters were shot at. some were killed |
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The Homestead Strike |
first semi-successful protest at a steel plant. Riot broke out, several killed. Kept new workers from entering. Went for several months, later fell apart. |
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Pullman Strike |
caused by reduced wages and increased rent, first nationwide strike. Federal troops end it. |
