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Industrial America Flashcards

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transatlantic telegraph cable connection established by. U.S & Europe

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1866

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Typewriters invented

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1868

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Carbon paper

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1872

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adding machines

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1891

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mimeograph machines

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1892

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skyscrapers in Chicago 7 New York are built w/structural steel & elevators

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1880’s

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55 cities offer local telephone service & cater to 50,000 customers

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1880

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Alexander Graham Bell established the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T)

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1885

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1.5 million telephones in operation

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1859

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New drilling technique allows petro to be mined

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1859

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New distilling technique of transforming crude oil into lucrative by-products.

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Cracking

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Who invents air brakes & automatic coupling devices to attach train cars?

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Elijah McCoy

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New South

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An effort to industrialize the Civil War era South in the same way the North had been industrialized

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Convict Lease System

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Black prisoners were hired out to private companies & worked to take time off their sentences.

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Vertical Integration

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A network of firms, each contributing to the final product

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Horizontal Integration

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Gaining greater control over the market by acquiring firms that sell the same products

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Corporation

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Provided investors w/“limited liability

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Trust

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Monopoly formed by a small group of leading stockholders from several firms who manage the consolidated enterprise

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Social Darwinism

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the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals

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The Gospel of Wealth

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The rich should act as stewards of the wealth they earned, they should administer their surplus income for the benefit of the community.

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