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19 Cards in this Set
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Edwin L Drake
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successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil
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Bessemer process
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developed independently by the British manufacturer Henry Bessemer
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Thomas Edison
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became a pioneer on the new industrial frontier when he established the world's first research laboratory in New York
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Christopher Sholes
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Invented typewriter in 1867
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Alexander Graham Bell
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helped build the telephone in 1876
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Transcontinental Railroad
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a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the US, completed in 1869
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George Pullman
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Built a factoryfor manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois prairie.
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Credit Mobiler
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Formed by stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad who used it to skim railroad profits for themselves
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Munn vs. Illinois
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an 1877 Supreme Court case that upheld the Granger laws by a vote of seven to two. - states could regulate railroads- government could regulate private industry
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Interstate commerce Act
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a law in 1887 that gave the federal government the right to supervise railroad activities and created a 5 member interstate commerce commision to do so.
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Andrew Carnegie
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worked his way up in the Pennsylvania railroad to make his own fortune - gave money for various charities
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Vertical and Horizontal integration
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Vertical - a company takes over its suppliers, distributors, and transportation to gain total control over its product.
Horizontal - Merging of companies that make similar products |
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Social Darwinism
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an economic/social philosophy based on Charles Darwins theory of evolution - system of unrestrained competition will result in survival of the fittest.
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John D. Rockefeller
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owner of Standard Oil Company who developed Trusts - used them to gain control of the oil industry.
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Sherman's Antitrust Act
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Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states of with other countries.
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Samuel Gompers
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Led the Cigar Makers Union to join with other unions - president of the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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an alliance of trade and craft unions, formed in 1886
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Eugene v. Debs
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attempted to form an industrial union the American Railway Union (ARU)
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IWW - Industrial Workers of the World
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Headed by "Big Bill" Haywood, uncluded miners, lumberers, and cannery and dock workers
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