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US History > Pages 102-117 > Flashcards

Pages 102-117 Flashcards

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Iron to steel

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1855, Sir Henry Bessemer; Bessemer process.

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Iron Ore from Lake Superior

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To Chicago or Pittsburgh; coal from Pennsylvania and WV. Became largest industry.

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Corn Flakes

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First “instant breakfast”. 1880s

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Chain stores

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F.W. Woolworth and J.C. Penny, 1880s and 1890s

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Aaron Montgomery Ward

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Mail-order for rural Americans to buy factor goods; started 1872. Compitition from Sears, Roebuck and Co

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Railroads. Tatics to make other people go out of business.

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John D. Rockefeller

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Oil industry

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Andrew Carnegie

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Steel

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Oil

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1855; way to refine it into petroleum.

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Otis’s elevators

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mid-1850s; at first for freight because they crashed often. Otis developed a safety hoist.

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Frank J. Sprague

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1887, trolley cars with electric motors.

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Thomas Edison

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First incandescent bulb in 1879. 1882, first central power station. 1093 patents

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Nikola Tesla

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1888, developed AC aka alternating current

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Mark Twain

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1835-1910. Aka Samuel Clemens. Raised in Hannibal, Missouri.

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“Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show”

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started 1883 by William F. Cody.

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Chicago Exposition

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1893; seen as world’s first fair.

17
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Baseball

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by 1900, National and American leagues.

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Kentucky Derby

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First 1875

19
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Basketball

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Invented 1892

20
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1880-1900

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9 million immigrants immigrated to the US

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1900-1920

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14.5 million immigrants immigrated to the US. From Poland, Russia, southern Europe (Italy). Italians largest, Jews second.

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Hull House

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Chicago, 1889 by Jane Addams based on “Settlement houses” in England. Taught sewing, English, and other subjects.

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1849

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10,000 Chinese immigrants working on railroad. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, repealed 1943.

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Homestead Strike

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  1. Trade unions formed the American Federation of Labor. Destroyed by going on strike against Carnegie Steel’s Homestead plant.
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Pullman Strike

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  1. Workers had to live in Pullman house and buy stuff at Pullman stores. May 1894 American Railway Union went on strike after they cut wages.
26
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Mother Jones

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1830-1930. Irish immigrant, worked 50 years as a labor organizer. Lost family to yellow-fever in 1867.

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Samuel Gompers

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1850-1924. Worked as a cigar maker. Helped form American Federation of Labor.

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Patrons of Husbandry

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Aka Grange. Formed 1867 by Oliver Kelley. Thought to open cooperatives to buy supplies and machinery at low cost.

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Populist Party

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  1. Granges and Famers’ Alliance formed People’s Party of the U.S.A. aka the Populist party.

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