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7th SS Study Guide 10.4 -10.6 Flashcards

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Who invented a shoe-making machine that performed many steps previously done by hand?

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Jan Matzelliger

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A group of national trade unions, in 1886, formed?

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AFL

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Who invented the telephone?

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Whose electric power plant lit up 85 buildings in New York City?

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Thomas Edison

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Who linked Europe and the United States with a transatlantic telegraph line?

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Cyrus Field

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Who was the inventor of the railroad sleeping car?

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George Pullman

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What steel company owner who was also a philanthropist?

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Andrew Carnigie

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The U.S. attorney General ordered an injunction to stop what strike?

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The Haymarket Riot

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When railroads were consolidated this group of men was formed?

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Railroad barrens

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Who took Edison’s work a step further by developing a transformer?

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George westinghouse

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What was Thomas Edison’s most important invention?

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Light bulb

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In what year did Henry Ford introduce the Model T to the public?

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1908

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Who developed railroad refrigerator cars?

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Gustavus Swift

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Who formed Standard Oil Company of Ohio?

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John D Rockefeller

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Who led the Pullman Strike?

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Debbs

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How many inventions did Granville Woods patent?

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More than 50

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What did Lewis Howard Latimer invent?

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Carbon filament light bulb

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What did George Westinghouse invent?

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Transformer

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Who pioneered the assembly line?

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Henry Ford

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After what event did the anti-labor feeling begin to grow?

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Haymarket Riot

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What led to the creation of the multimillion-dollar petroleum industry?

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Drake’s oil discovery in Titusville, Tennessee

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Which philanthropist built more the 2000 libraries worldwide?

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Andrew Carnigie

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Child-labor laws did not apply to this industry that employed about 1 million children?

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Agriculture

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