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1
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What is the bessemer process and who brought it to america?

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-A convient way to mass produce steel
-Andrew Carnegie

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Three natural resources

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Coal- mixed with iron to make steel and power steam engines

Oil- to make machines run

Iron- mixed with coal to make steel

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Who had an oil buisness that became popular because of demand for kerosene

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Edwin L Drake

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Human Resources

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Farmers
Former slaves
Immigrants

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Christopher Latham sholes

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Typewriter

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Alaxedner graham bell

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Telephone

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Telegraph

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Samuel morse

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Refrigerated rail car

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Gustavus swift

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George Westinghouse

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Air break

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Airplane

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Wright brothers

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Mass produce cars and assembly line

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Henry ford

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12
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Light bulb

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Thomas Edison

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13
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Monopoly

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No substitute for something, controlling that field

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Trust

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Cooperations run by a board of directors

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Robber baron

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People who used unethical buisness practices

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Captain of industry

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People who deserved Their money and donated

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17
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Vertical integration

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In charge of everything

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18
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Horzontial integration

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Merging businesses

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19
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Sherman anti trust act

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Made monopoly illegal

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20
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Social Darwinism

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Survival of the fittest in business

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21
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Lassiez faire

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Gov can not intrude in businesses

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22
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Elijah McCoy

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First AA to get a patent

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23
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True or false

Rockefeller hired spies to spry on other businesses

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True!!

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Huratio aljere

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Rags to riches

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25
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Three ways gov helped buisnesses

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-high tarifs
-did not mess with them
-preferred owner over workers

26
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Cooperation

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Many shareholders running somthing

27
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West railroad tycoon

A

Leland standford

28
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Morganization

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JP Morgan’s thing of buying out failing businesses

29
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Spoils system

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Giving jobs to unqualified people because you made a deal or your like the person

30
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Six groups that suffered during gilded age and why

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Women-could not vote

Immigrants- discrimination

Native Americans- forced to adopt American culture

Freedmen- denied rights

Farmers- overproduction

Children- cheap labor

31
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Eugene Debbs

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Powerful leader of American railroad company

Fun fact: He would run for president sometimes

Goes to jail after pullman strike

32
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George pullman

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Has luxury train car company

Pays workers in script (fake money)

33
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The pullman strike (why, where, industry, description and effect)

A

Why?
Workers being payed in script (like Monopoly money)

Workers not getting enough money

Workers being payed 400-500 they need 600 to live

Where??

Pullman, Illinois

Industry??

Luxury railroad company

Desciption??

10,000 workers walk of the job and it becomes bloody so Grover Cleveland sends in military because railroad means mail and that was their excuse

Effect??

22 strikers were killed

Chicago had no trains for 2 months

34
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Great railroad strike (why where industry description and effect)

A

Why??
-cut wages,and get rid of benefits

Where??
-Martinsburg, West Virgina

Industry??
-Railroad

Description??
-lasted 45 days

Effect??
- was unsuccessful

35
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Hay market riots (why where industry description and effect)

A

Why??
-workers wanted an 8 hour work day

Where??
-Haymarket Square: Chicago, illinois

Industry??
-a bunch of them over Chicago

Description??
-someone threw a bomb at the police and 7 were killed

Effect??
- seven people were hung
-KOL were blamed

36
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Homestead strike (why where industry description and effect)

A

Why??
-company demanded a wage cut and a 70-hr work week

Where?
-Homestead, Pennsylvania

Industry??
Carnegie steel company

Description?
-several workers and private guards were killed
-state militias broke up the strike

Effect??
-strikers went back to work

37
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Who repealed the tenure of office act

A

Grover Cleveland

38
Q

Who passed the Pendleton act

A

Chester Arthur

39
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Halfbreeds are _____ the spoils system

A

Agents

40
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Stalwarts _____ the spoils system

A

Supported

41
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Political boss

A

William Marcy Tweed

42
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Patronage

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Spoils system

43
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Scab

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Replacement worker

44
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Yellow dog contract

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Contract for an employee to not join a union

45
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Open/closed shop

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Open: place of employment where one is not required to join or financially support a union
Closed: of employment where one is required to join or financially support a union

46
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Injunction

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Court order

47
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Lockout

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Company locks union workers out

48
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Arbration

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3rd party unbyastist

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Political Machine

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Powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office

50
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Script

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Company money

51
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Entretuer

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Someone who makes a new buisness

52
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John D Rockefeller

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-standard oil
-did not treat workers good

53
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JP Morgan

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-morganization (buying out failing buisnesses)

54
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Andrew Carnegie

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-Grew up poor
-donated a lot
-wrote “the gospel of wealth”
-steel

55
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Industrial revolution

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Going from man made to machines

56
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Henry ford

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-mass produce cars
-assembly line
-donated

57
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Thomas Edison

A

-light bulb
-might not of deserved the credit?????

58
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John D Rockefeller

A

Made: standard oil

Tactics: Vertical and horizontal Integration
-hired spies


59
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JP Morgan

A

Made: Morganization (buying out failing buisnesses and bringing them back)
-mainly dominated in steel and railroad industry
- had monopoly’s

60
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Andrew Carnegie

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Made: steel

-brought Bessemer process to USA

-

-donated a lot and wrote a book on why you should donate more

61
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Why was carnigie so successful?

A
  1. He set his prices low at first and then brought them up
  2. He hired the best
  3. He recycled
  4. He found uses for byproducts
62
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Cornelius Vanderbilt

A

East railroad tycoon

Used horzontial integration

Monopoly

Did not treat workers well

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