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1
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  • invented pullman car
  • luxury car was brough (train car)
A

george pullman

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  • safety feature
  • stopping train is safer & faster
A

Sater - Air brakes

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Steel

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replace iron

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4
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time zones

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1883 divide US into different time zones (railroad company). pacific, maritime, central, easter

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5
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Drake - Oil Well

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  • titusville pennsylvania
  • august 27 1959 oil well
  • replacement for whale oil
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  • invents morse code
  • sent first telegram Jan 5, 1838
  • western union (big telegram company)
A

Morse - Telegraph

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  • invents telephone
  • 1876
    AHOY AHOY
A

Bell

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8
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George Eastman

A
  • photography
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Kodak Company - Roll Film

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  • roll film used in kodak cameras
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  • setup a lab
  • invented: phonograph, stopticker, dictaphone, INCADESCENT LIGHTBULB
  • Edison electric power company
A

Thomas Edison

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11
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AC/DC

A

Edison electric power company
AC: alternating current (long distance)
DC: direct current

big flaw in big current

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Tesla

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  • invented AC generators
  • competitor with edison
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Westinghouse

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  • competitor with edison
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war of the currents

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  • edison vs westinghouse
  • animal execution –> electrocution –> electric chair
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Robber Barons - Gilded Age - Age of the Robber Barons

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  • nickname for rich people
  • have a monopoly that makes them wealthy
  • basically, steal from the working man
    ex. American Tobacco
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Cornelius Vanderbilt - Railroad

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  • Vanderbilt controls the railroads and became rich from them
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John D. Rockefeller - oil - standard oil

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  • gets into the oil business and purchases a refinery
  • in 1870, he founds company (standard oil company of ohio)
  • 90% of oil is now owned by standard oil
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  • builds carnegie hall in NYC
  • donates to various charitable organizations
A

Carnegie - Steel - Steel Mill

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JP Morgan - investment banker

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  • invents railroads
  • becomes a railroad Baron
  • buys Carnegie company
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US Steel

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  • worlds first billion dollar company
  • also a monopoly
  • produces 2/3 of all American Steel
21
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poowhen owners from one industry make informal agreement to share traffic and maintain ratesls

A

Pools

22
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  • surrender stock shares back
  • certificate of trust
A

trust

23
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Sherman Antitrust Act

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makes trust illegal

24
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Railroad strike of 1877

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  • first national strike in American History B&O railroad cuts wages by 20%
  • worker destroys $10 mil in railroad properties
25
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Haymarket Square Riot

A

Bomb thrown at police. Shootout

26
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Homestead Strike

A

H.C. Frick

27
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Pullman Strike

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  • manufactures pullman palace cars
  • george pullman lays off workers, cuts wages, keeps rent high without displaying reasons
28
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What communication device did Samuel Morse invent that used Morse Code to transmit messages?

A

telegraph

29
Q

Who invented the telephone

A

Bell

30
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George Eastman founded what camera company?

A

Kodak Company

31
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What inventor had his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey and invented such things at phonograph, Dictaphone, and motion picture camera?

A

Edison

32
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What is Edison’s most important invention?

A

Incandescent lightbulb

33
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What was Edison’s competitor that used alternating current, which led to the war of the currents?

A

Westinghouse

34
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What robber baron controlled the railroads and is the third wealthiest man of all time?

A

Vanderbilt

35
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What robber baron controlled the oil industry and is the second wealthiest man of all time?

A

Rockefeller

36
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What robber baron controlled the steel industry and is the second wealthiest man of all time?

A

Carnegie

37
Q

What robber baron was an investment banker and bought the above man’s steel company?

A

JP Morgan

38
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What was the name of John D. Rockefeller’s oil company?

A

Standard Oil Co.

39
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Name the first billion dollar company that was owned by JP Morgan

A

???

40
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What was formed when stockholders surrendered their shares in trust to a central board of directors?

A

Trust

41
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What act made trusts illegal in 1890?

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Sherman Antitrust Act

42
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What strike was the first nationwide strike?

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Railroad Strike 1877

43
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Name the riot that occurred in Chicago after a bomb was thrown from the crowd at police.

A

Haymarket Square Riot

44
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Name the strike that occurred at one of Andrew Carnegie’s steel mills in Pittsburgh in 1892.

A

Homestead Strike

45
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Name the strike that began in 1894 when George

A

Pullman Strike

46
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Due to time differences between cities, the railroads divided the country up into four different what in 1883?

A

time zones

47
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Edwin Drake drilled what kind of well in Titusville, PA on August 27, 1859?

A

Oil

48
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BQ: Name the first man executed by the electric chair

A

William Kemmler

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