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42 Cards in this Set
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Island Communities
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Communities that are self-sufficient and isolated. Mostly brought to an end with railroads
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Credit Mobiler
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A construction company controlled by Union Pacific that was the center of a political scandal. They found loopholes to build fast, recklessly, and even into indian territory.
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Trunk Lines
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Railroad lines that ran from essential city to essential city. They were the B&O railroad, the Erie Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, and the Pennsylvania Railroad
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Railroad gague
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The distance between the insides of the two railroad rails.
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J Edgar Tompson
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The man who was president of the Pennsylvania railroad and invested largely in Carnegie.
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Thomas Scott
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The fourth president of the Pennsylvania railroad took in the young Carnegie as a telegraph operator.
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JP Morgan
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James Pierpont Morgan was an American banker. He refinanced dying railroad businesses and made them more effective. These were mostly in the south and he became a leading figure in american railroading.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Also known as "The Commodore," he was the owner of the New York Central railroad and one of the richest men of his time.
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JD Rockefeller
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The founder and owner of the Standard Oil company. He absorbed or destroyed all competition and became one of the richest men in the world.
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Andrew Carnegie
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The founder of the Carnegie Steel company. He used vertical integration, or owning every step of his steel making process, to make an enormous profit.
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American railway association
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The American Railway association divided the country into four time zones to help them with keeping up with train times.
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George Pullman
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An American inventor who is known best for his invention of the "Pullman Sleeping Car."
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Vertical Integration
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A company makes more money in this process, which involves the company owning and making profit from each aspect of the production of their product.
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Horizontal Consolidation
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When two similar businesses combine to make one business that produces the products of both.
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Union Pacific and Central Pacific
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Two major railroads both made to be transcontinental railroads from Pacific to Atlantic railroads.
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Transcontinental Railroad
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The railroads linking both coasts of the nation, from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
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Bessemer Process
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Developed by Henry Bessemer, it is the process of making steel that involves shooting a blast of air through molten iron to remove impurities
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"Trusts"
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A method of business organization that was developed by Rockefeller.
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Knights of Labor
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A labor union founded by Uriah H. Stephens that dreamed of a worker utopia and welcomed all into their ranks, no matter sex, ethnicity, or line of work.
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US steel corporation
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Carnegie's steel company when it was bought by JP Morgan.
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AFL
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The American Federation of Labor was the most successful labor union who welcomed all, but unlike the Knights of Labor, they had realistic goals.
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Henry Clay Frick
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Partner to Carnegie, he helped to suppress the Homestead Strike.
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Homestead Strike
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A strike that began at the Homestead plant, which belonged to Carnegie. Eventually the rioting workers were dispersed with the help of Frick.
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Cyrus Field
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The inventor of the telegraph
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Alexander Grahm Bell
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The inventor of the telephone
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Chinese Exclusion act
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In response to all of the chinese immigrants taking jobs from Americans, it prohibited chinese immigration for ten years.
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Haymarket Riot
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A riot of angry workers at Haymarket Square. Initially it was peaceful, but then someone threw a dynamite bomb. it make the labor movement weaker.
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Northern Securities Company
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A railroad trust formed in 1902 that filed suit against Rockefeller when he moved to New Jersey
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Pullman Strike
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A strike in Pullman, Illinois that was workers against the railroad companies. 1894
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George Eastman
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The developer of easier film and the Kodiak camera.
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Thomas Edison
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The "Wizard of Menlo Park," He was a great american inventor. He invented the phonograph, incandescent lamp, and more
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Chain Store
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Stores that pop up everywhere. For example, Wal-mart.
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Mail Order Catalogs
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A catalog in which someone may order what they want, send the check, and have it delivered to their door.
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Rise in Advertising.
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In 1900, businessmen spent ten times as much in advertising as 1867. The first advertising company was N. W. Ayer and Son.
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Muller v Oregon
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A supreme court case which justified sex discrimination in the workplace.
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Brandeis Brief
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The data collected by Louis Brandeis which proved to the supreme court of its time that women were physically inferior.
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Holden v. Hardy
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A court case that upheld the hours for miners and prevented them from going longer due to dangerous conditions
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Lochner v New York
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Struck down a law passed limiting hours in a bakery.
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The great railroad strike of 1877
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When the railroad cut its worker's wages, they were met with this riot and strike from its workers
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Upton Sinclair
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An american author who's works contributed to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug act and the Meat Inspection Act. Specifically, he wrote the book "The Jungle."
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"The Jungle"
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Written by Upton Sinclair, it showed the horrors of the meat processing plant.
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Jacob Riis
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A danish american journalist who helped with the establishment of "Model Tenements" with his works.
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