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22 Cards in this Set
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Second Industrial Revolution
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A period of rapid growth in U.S manufacturing in the late 1800 |
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Patents |
Exclusive rights to make or sell inventions |
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Bessemer process |
A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
Patented the telephone |
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Thomas Edison |
Created the lightbulb |
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Henry Ford |
Made the Model T and made a moving assembly line |
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Vertical integration |
Ownership of business involved in each step of a manufacturing process |
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Horizontal integration |
Owning all business in a certain field |
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Trust |
A legal arrangement grouping together a number of companies under a single board of directors |
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Social Darwinism |
A view of society based on scientist Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection |
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Monopoly |
Or total ownership of a product or service |
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Sherman anti-trust act |
A law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade |
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Corporations |
Business that sell portions of ownership called stock shares |
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Strike |
Stop working for an employer |
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Hay market riot |
Riot that was a riot with bombs and guns |
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Collective bargaining |
All workers acting collectively, or together-workers had a much greater chance of success in negotiating with management |
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Labor Union |
Union to stop bad working condition and less hours |
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Old Immigrants |
English speaking Europeans and came to settle farms |
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New Immigrants |
Did not speak English and came here for jobs and usually to escape their home country |
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Tenements |
Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings |
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Sweatshops |
Long hours, hot, unhealthy working conditions that made cloths |
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Nativists |
US citizens that did not like the new immigrants |
