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41 Cards in this Set
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Island Communities
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Cities and villages that were way out west and isolated and the railroads connected them and brought them together
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Credit Mobilier
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The distribution of Crédit Mobilier shares of stock by Congressman Oakes Ames along with cash bribes to congressmen took place during the Andrew Johnson presidency in 1868
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Trunk Lines
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Railroads that led many smaller rails to the larger rails.
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J. Edgar Thomson
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Built the Pennsylvania Railroad, the fourth Trunk Line.
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Thomas Scott
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Built the Pennsylvanie Railroad, the fourth Trunk Line.
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JP Morgan
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Was head of the New York investment house of JP Morgan and Company, took the lead of the railroad companies.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Owned the New York Central Railroad, the third Trunk Line, and was a multimillionaire from the shipping business.
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JD Rockefeller
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A 24 year old Merchant from Cleveland who started the Standard Oil Company.
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Andrew Carnegie
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The undisputed leader of the Steel Company, and started the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Company and became the richest man ever.
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American Railway Association
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an industry trade group representing railroads in the United States.
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George Pullman
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an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently suppressing striking workers in the company town he created
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Vertical Intergration
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a type of organization in which a single corporation owns and controls the entire process.
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Horizontal Consolidation
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A type of organization in which a company sells many produstc in different markets.
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Union Pacific and Central Pacific
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The two main companies hired to built the Transcontinental Railroad
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Transcontinental Railroad
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The first raidroad to go from the east coast to the west coast
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Bessemer Process
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the process of adding oxygen to molten iron to create steel
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"Trusts"
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A business-management device designed to centralize and make more efficient the management of diverse and far-flung business operations.
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Knights of Labor
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A labor organization who welcomed all type of people and fought for workers rights
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US Steel Corporation
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an integrated steel producer who combined the Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry "Judge" Moore's National Steel Company for $492 million.
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AFL
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A labor organization who only accpeted hard working white males and fought for workers rights
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Henry Clay Frick
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Partner of Andrew Carnegie
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Homestead Strike
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Occurred when the wages of the workers of Homestead Steel Plany were lowered 20%
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Cyrus Field
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Improved the transatlantic cable linking the telegraph networks of Europe and the United States.
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Inventor who invented the telephone
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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prohibited the immigration of the Chinese for 10 years
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Haymarket Riot
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Strike held outside of Haymarket Square. An explosive bomb was thrown in the midst of it and killed 1 policemen. Policemen then opened fire and killed 4 people
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Northern Securities Company
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an important United States railroad trust formed in 1902 by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan, J. D. Rockefeller, and their associates. The company controlled the Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and other associated lines
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Pullman Strike
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a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894. The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois on May 11 when approximately 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
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George Eastman
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Invented the camera
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Thomas Edison
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Great American Inventor who invented many things including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb
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Chain Store
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A store that had more than one location owned by the same company
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Mail Order Catalogs
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Catalogs in which you could order what you wanted by mail
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Rise in Advertising
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The rise in advertising helped advertise products. This made much more money for companies
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Muller V. Oregon
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Expanded the Definition of Acceptable Evidence
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Brandeis Brief
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Expanded the definition of legal evidence
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Holden V. Hardy
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Court upheld a law limiting working hours for miners because their work was dangerous and long hours might increase injuries
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Lochner V. New York
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Struck down a law limiting bakery workers to a sixty-hour week and 10-hour day because it was less dangerous then mining
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Great Railroad Strike of 1877
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paralyzed railroads from California to West Virginia, resulting in deaths in more than a hundred workers
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Upton Sinclair
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a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres
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"The Jungle"
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a 1906 novel written by author and journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to highlight the plight of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century.
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Jacob Riis
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a Danish American social reformer, muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography
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