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Ch. 19 Flashcards

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James j hill

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Built the great northern line (another railroad baron)

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Gustavious swift

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Developed refrigerated cars

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George westinghouse

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Made air breaks

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Great northern line

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Between Minnesota and washington state

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Who invented the Telegraph

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Samuel morse

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Who invented the telephone

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Alexander graham bell

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Who invented the light bulb/patents and research lab

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Thomas edison

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Who made transformers

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G. Westinghouse

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Who invented the assembly line/cars

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Henry ford

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Who invented the airplane

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The wright brothers

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Who was involved in the steel industry

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Andrew carnegie

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Who was involved in the standard oil company

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John Rockefeller

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What was the sherman antitrust act

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It protected trade and commerce

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What did the child labor laws state

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That children had to be at least 12 to work, and should not work more than 10 hours a day.

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What is consolidation

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The practice of combing seperate companies

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What is a rebate

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A secret discount

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What was a standard gauge

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The width of the railroad track

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What was a pool

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Secret agreements among the railroad barons

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Cornelius vanderbuilt

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Ons of the first railroad barons

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What was the assembly line

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A less expensive way to manufacture cars

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What is a mass production

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When manufacturers produce large quantities of goods more quickly

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What is a corporation

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A company that sold shares

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What is a stock

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Shares

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What are shareholders

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Partial owners

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What is a dividend

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Cash payments from the corporations profits

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What is horizontal integration

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The combining of competing firms into one corporation

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What is a trust

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A group of companies managed by the same board of directors

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What is a monopoly

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Total control by a single producer

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What is vertical integration

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Acquiring companies that provided the equipment and services he needed

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What is philanthropy

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The use of money to benefit the community

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What were mergers

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The combining of companies

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