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industrial revolution vocab Flashcards

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Edwin L. Drake

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First person to use steam engine to drill for oil

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Bessemer Process

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Technique used to make steel from iron

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Inventor of the telephone

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Thomas Edison

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Inventor of the light bulb

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Christopher Sholes

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Inventor of the typewriter

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Transcontinental Railroad

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A railroad that crosses the entire country

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George M. Pullman

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Inventor of the sleeping car

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Crédit Mobilier

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Name of company involved in stealing of railroad money

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Munn v. Illinois

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Court case that gave government right to regulate private industry

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Interstate Commerce Act

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Law granting Congress authority to regulate railroad activities

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Andrew Carnegie

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Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry

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Vertical Integration

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Process in which a company buys out its suppliers

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Horizontal Integration

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Process in which companies producing similar products merge

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Social Darwinism

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Theory that taught only the strong survived

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John D. Rockefeller

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Head of the Standard Oil Company

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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Law that outlawed trusts

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Samuel Gompers

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Union leader

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American Federation of Labor (AFL)

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Name of union led by Gompers

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Eugene V. Debs

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Leader of the American Railway Union

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Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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Union of radicals and socialists nicknamed the

Wobblies

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Mary Harris Jones

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Organizer for United Mine Workers

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Ellis Island

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Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the East Coast

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Angel Island

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Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the West Coast

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Melting Pot

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A mixture of different cultures living together

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Nativism

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Overt favoritism toward native-born Americans

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Act that limited Chinese immigration

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Gentlemen’s Agreement

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Agreement that limited Japanese emigration to the U.S.

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Urbanization

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The growth of cities

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Tenement

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Multifamily urban dwellings

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Mass Transit

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Transportation system designed to move large numbers of people along
fixed routes

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Social Gospel Movement

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Movement that urged people to help the poor

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Settlement House

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Community center that addressed problems in slum neighborhoods

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Jane Addams

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Social reformer who helped the poor

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