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What were examples of inventions mentioned in Charlie Brown?

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  • paper bag -football
  • comic strip -baseball
  • chewing gum -refrigerated railroad car
  • ice cream sundae -cable cars
  • drinking straw -vacuum
  • toothpick -typewriter
  • sneakers -billiard ball
  • earmuffs -telephone
  • 4-wheel roller skates -electric light bulb
  • basketball -horseless carriage
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patent

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government document giving an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell and invention for a specific number of years

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Bessemer steel process

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uses less coal, so it reduced the price of steel

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Thomas Edison

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inventor of the electric light bulb and many other devices; had a lab in New Jersey and over 1,000 patents. Edison created the first electric plant

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Alexander Graham Bell

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inventor of the telephone, by accident and spilled acid on himself and found that sound travels on a line

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Christopher L Sholes

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inventor of the first practical typewriter

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Elias Howe

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first patented the sewing machine

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Isaac Singer

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patented a sewing machine and continued to improve it

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Granville T Woods

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patented devices to improve telephone and telegraph systems

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Margaret Knight

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invented machines for packaging and the packaging and shoe making industries

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corporation

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a business owned by investors who buy part of it through shares of stock

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shareholder

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an investor who buys part of a company through shares of stock

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John D Rockefeller

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founder of the Standard Oil Trust and made his fortune by buying out other refineries

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horizontal integration

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buying out competition and in turn, raising the price

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Andrew Carnigie

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built US steel industry

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vertical integration

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control all processes related to manufacture

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robber baron

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a business leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods

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monopoly

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when a corporation owns a vast majority of the industry

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trust

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a kind of monopoly formed when businesses join together in order to hold stock

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business cycle

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the pattern of good and bad economic times

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depression

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a period of low economic activity

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Gilded Age

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the late 1800s in which there was much poverty covered by the wealthy and that there was a stigma that anyone could get wealthy through hard work

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tenement

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run down and overcrowded apartment houses

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slum

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neighborhood with overcrowded apartment houses

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Jane Addams

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urban reformer and suffrage leader who founded the Hull House

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Hull House

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settlement house founded by Jane Addams that provided daycare, education and healthcare

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political machine

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an illegal gang that influences enough votes to control a local gang using extortion

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Tammany Hall

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a political machine in New York City led by William Marcy Tweed that stole money from the city

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Jim Crow Laws

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laws enacted in Southern states that affected schools, churches and swimming pools

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segregation

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the separation of races

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Plessy v. Perguson

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an 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the legality of segregation

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NAACP

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the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People formed by reformers

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Booker T. Washington

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an early leader in the effort to achieve equality; founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Washington believed that education could gain African American advancement through economic security

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W.E.B. DuBois

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a sociology professor; believed that African Americans should fight against segregation and pushed for higher education; disagreed with Washington

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Knights of Labor

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one of the first labor unions in the country and a loose federation of workers from different trades

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anarchist

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people who are anti-government

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negotiate

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to make a deal that benefits both parties

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strike

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when workers band together to gather and refuse to work to attain better wages or working conditions

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boycott

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to refuse to purchase a product/ use service

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assembly line

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a system used for mass production where each worker has a part to produce a product

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conveyor belt

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a belt that moves products along an assembly line at a constant speed

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Haymarket Affair

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a conflict between union leaders and police, 100 were wounded and 7 were killed in Chicago in a square; union membership dropped

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Samuel Gompers

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a famous labor leader (the AFL president for 37 years) who created the American Federation of Labor.

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American Federation of Labor (AFL)

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a national organization of unions created by Samuel Gompers; used negotiations, strikes and boycotts to achieve aims

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Homestead Strike

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at Andrew Carnegie’s steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, wages were cut and striking union workers were locked out and nonunion labor workers and armed guards were hired; violence erupted and 7 died; after 4 months, strike broke

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Pullman Strike

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a strike that spread throughout the rail industry in 1894; led by Eugene V Debs

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Eugene V Debs

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called on US Railroad workers to refuse to handle Pullman cars due to cut wages and high rent; rail traffic stopped and President Cleveland ended strike

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culture

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a belief system of a group of people and actions due to beliefs

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Joseph Pulitzer

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newspaper owner of the New York World

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William Randolph Hearst

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newspaper owner of the New York Morning Journal, fierce competitor of Joseph Pulitzer

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department store

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a new type of store that sold a wide variety of goods; goods were also available through mail catalog

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Angel Island

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Immigrant processing in San Francisco (Asians)

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Ellis Island

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Immigrant processing in New York (Europeans)

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Banned Chinese immigration for 10 years. Chinese faced major discrimination because they were hard workers.

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J.P. Morgan

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A banker who gave loans to RR companies and helped them join together.

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