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Ch 6 Flashcards

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Gasoline

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Byproduct of refining oil into kerosene

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Steel

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Made by the Bessemer process

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George Pullman

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Built sleeper cars for trains, built a small town for his employees to live in

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Bessemer process

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Injecting air into molten iron to rid it of carbon and other impurities

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Alva Edison

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Made lightbulb and first laboratory

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Inventions for progress

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Christopher sholes- typewriter

Alexander graham bell- telephone

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Andrew Carnegie

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Invested and became rich, became a HUGE producer of steel

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Horizontal integration

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Companies with similar products merge

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Vertical integration

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Companies with different products merge

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Cities because of railroads

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Abilene, Kansas; Flagstaff, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; and Seattle, Washington,

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4time zones

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Eastern, central, mountain, pacific

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Cf dowd

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Proposed that the world be split into 24 different time zones

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Rockefeller

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Owned standard oil company, made huge profits by paying employees little

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Credit mobilizer scandal

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Made railroad track for about 2-3 times the actual cost and payed off congressmen not to say anything

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Robber barons

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Industrialists who used unfair tactics to make a lot of money

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Herbert Spencer

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Used Darwin’s biological theories to explain evolution of humans

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Philanthropy

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Wanting well being of others especially by donations of money

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Monopoly

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Buying out all of an industry to gain complete control over it

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Vanderbilt

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Cornelius Vanderbilt donated 1 mil to establish the university

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Samuel Gompers

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Led the cigar makers international union to join other craft unions, president of American federation of labor

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American federation of labor

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Negotiated with other businesses to get fair treatment in work

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Sherman anti trust act

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Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries

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National labor union

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Persuaded Congress to legalize 8 hr work days for gov employees

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Mother jones

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Prominent organizer in womens labor unions

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Edwin drake

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Successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil

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George Westinghouse

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Helped make harnessing electricity safer and less expensive

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Grangers

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Wanted gov to take control over corrupt railroads

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J.P. Morgan

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Headed United States steel and bought out Carnegie steel making it the largest business in the world

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Eugene v debs

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Wanted to form a union of skilled and unskilled workers - American railway union

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