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*What did Edwin L. Drake do in 1859?

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Successfully used steam engine drills for oil

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*What was the Bessemer process?

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Puts air into iron to remove carbon to make steel

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*What did Thomas Alva Edison do in 1876?

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Established first research laboratory

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*What did Christopher Shores invent in 1867?

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The typewriter

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*What did Alexander Grahm Bell and Thomas Watson do in 1876?

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Introduced the telephone

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*What was completed and spanned the nation in 1869?

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The first transcontinental railroad

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*What did George M. Pullman do in 1880?

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Built a railcar factory on Illinois prairie

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*The Union Pacific stockholders formed which construction company?

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Credit mobilier

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*What was Munn v. Illinois?

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Supreme Court upholds states’ right to regulate RR

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*What did public outrage lead to in 1887?

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The interstate Commerce Act

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*Who was one of first moguls to make their own fortune?

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Andrew Carnegie

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*What 2 business strategies did Carnegie come up with? What did they do?

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• Vertical integration -buys or suppliers to control materials
•Horizontal integration -merges with competing companies

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*What is a social Darwinist

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•Someone who believes that cause people are different races that they are a different species than us
•A person who believes in segregation

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*What was John D. Rockefeller the founder of?

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The Standard Oil Company -also formed trust

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*What was the Sherman Autitrust Act?

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Trust illegal if interferes with free trade

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*What was Samuels Gompers the founder of? And what did it do?

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•American Federation of Labor (AFL)
•AFL uses collective bargaining (negotiating) for better wages, hours, and conditions

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*What formed in 1905? Who formed it?

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•Industrial workers of the world (IWW)
•Radical Unionists and socialists

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*Who was the most prominent organizer in women’s labor?

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Mary Harris Jones

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*What was Ellis Island?

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The chief U.S. immigration station in New York Harbor

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*What was Angel Island?

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The immigrant processing station in San Francisco Bay

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*What does the term “melting pot” mean?

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People blend in the U.S. by abandoning their native culture

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*What does nativism mean?

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Overt favoritism towards native born Americans

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*What act in 1882 banned entry to most Chinese

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The Chinese Exclusion Act

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*What was the Gentleman’s agreement?

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Japan limits emigration

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*What did industrialization lead to?

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Urbanization (growth of cities)

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*What is Americanization?

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A movement that assimilates people into main culture

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*What is Tenements?

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Multifamily urban dwellings, are overcrowded, unsanitary

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*What did Mass Transit do?

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Move large numbers of people along fixed routes

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*What was the Gospel movement?

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Preaches salvation, through service to the poor

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*What were settlement houses?

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Community centers in slums to help immigrants

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*What was Poll Tax?

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Some that must be paid annually to vote

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*What was the Grandfather Clause?

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Let’s poor whites vote

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*What did racial segregation laws separate? What law was apart of this? What did that law do specifically?

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•Separated races in private and public places
•Jim Crow Laws
•Reject people from labor unions

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In 1896, what did Plessy v. Ferguson do?

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Made segregation legal in public places

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*Who was Ida B. Wells? What did she do?

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•Former slave who became a teacher and newspaper editor
•Campaigned for racial justice

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*Who was forced into debt Peonage?

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Some southwest Mexicans and African Americans

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What was Andrew Carnegie the king of

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Steel

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What was George Rice known for?

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Oil BUISNESS

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What was Cornelius Vanderbilt the king of?

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Railroad empire -he created it

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What was JP Morgan known for?

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Leading global financial service firms

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What was JD Rockefeller the king of?

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Oil

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