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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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Light bulb

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Thomas Edison

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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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Vertical integration

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In charge of everything

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Horzontial integration

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Merging businesses

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Sherman anti trust act

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Made monopoly illegal

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Social Darwinism

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Survival of the fittest in business

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Lassiez faire

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Gov can not intrude in businesses

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Elijah McCoy

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First AA to get a patent

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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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Three ways gov helped buisnesses
-high tarifs -did not mess with them -preferred owner over workers
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Cooperation
Many shareholders running somthing
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West railroad tycoon
Leland standford
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Morganization
JP Morgan’s thing of buying out failing businesses
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Spoils system
Giving jobs to unqualified people because you made a deal or your like the person
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Six groups that suffered during gilded age and why
Women-could not vote Immigrants- discrimination Native Americans- forced to adopt American culture Freedmen- denied rights Farmers- overproduction Children- cheap labor
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Eugene Debbs
Powerful leader of American railroad company Fun fact: He would run for president sometimes Goes to jail after pullman strike
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George pullman
Has luxury train car company Pays workers in script (fake money)
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The pullman strike (why, where, industry, description and effect)
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
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Great railroad strike (why where industry description and effect)
Why?? -cut wages,and get rid of benefits Where?? -Martinsburg, West Virgina Industry?? -Railroad Description?? -lasted 45 days Effect?? - was unsuccessful
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Hay market riots (why where industry description and effect)
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
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Homestead strike (why where industry description and effect)
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
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Who repealed the tenure of office act
Grover Cleveland
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Who passed the Pendleton act
Chester Arthur
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Halfbreeds are _____ the spoils system
Agents
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Stalwarts _____ the spoils system
Supported
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Political boss
William Marcy Tweed
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Patronage
Spoils system
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Scab
Replacement worker
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Yellow dog contract
Contract for an employee to not join a union
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Open/closed shop
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
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Injunction
Court order
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Lockout
Company locks union workers out
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Arbration
3rd party unbyastist
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Political Machine
Powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elected to public office
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Script
Company money
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Entretuer
Someone who makes a new buisness
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John D Rockefeller
-standard oil -did not treat workers good
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JP Morgan
-morganization (buying out failing buisnesses)
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Andrew Carnegie
-Grew up poor -donated a lot -wrote “the gospel of wealth” -steel
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Industrial revolution
Going from man made to machines
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Henry ford
-mass produce cars -assembly line -donated
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Thomas Edison
-light bulb -might not of deserved the credit?????
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John D Rockefeller
Made: standard oil Tactics: Vertical and horizontal Integration -hired spies 
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JP Morgan
Made: Morganization (buying out failing buisnesses and bringing them back) -mainly dominated in steel and railroad industry - had monopoly’s
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Andrew Carnegie
Made: steel -brought Bessemer process to USA - -donated a lot and wrote a book on why you should donate more
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Why was carnigie so successful?
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
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
East railroad tycoon Used horzontial integration Monopoly Did not treat workers well

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