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Patent

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Document giving inventors sole rights to make and sell their products

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Petroleum

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Oily flammable liquid used in making kerosene

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Business Cycle

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Patterns of good and bad economic times

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Bessemer steel process

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Technique that produced steel more cheaply

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Generator

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Machine that produced electric current

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Thomas Edison

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Inventor who developed a practical lightbulb and found the most ways to use electricity

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Inventor who developed the first telephone

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Centennial Exhibition

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A public fair celebrating America’s hundredth birthday

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Transcontinental Railroad

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A railroad that spanned the entire continent

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Standard time

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System that divided the country to four time zones

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Robber Baron

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Business person who became wealthy through dishonest methods

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Corporation

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Business owned by investors who bought stock in the company

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John D. Rockefeller

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Leader of the oil industry

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Andrew Carnegie

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Leader of the steel industry

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Monopoly

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Company that has sole control of industry

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Trust

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A legal body created to hold stock in many companies

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Philanthropist

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A person who gives away large sums of money to charities

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Gilded Age

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Term used to describe a time of both show tremendous wealth and poverty in the late 1800s

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Sweatshop

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Place where workers labored long hours for little pay

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Knights of labor

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Prominent workers union

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Socialism

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Economic system in which all members of society are equal owners of all businesses

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Haymarket affair

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A conflict between police and union members in Chicago in May 1886

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Pullman strike

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1894 strike that spread throughout the rail industry

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Eugene V Debs

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American Railway Union Pres.

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Samuel Gompers

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US labor leader

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American Federation of labor

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National organization of union that Gompers helped to found

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Frontier

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The sparsely settled area in the west

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Great Plains

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Area from Missouri River to Rocky Mountains

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Boomtown

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Town that experiences economic or population boom

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Long drive

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Cattle drive to Cow towns

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Vaquero

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One of the early cowhands who came to the southwest from Mexico

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Vigilante

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Citizen who took the law into his or her hands

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Reservation

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Land set aside for Native American tribes

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Sand Creek massacre

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A deadly attack on a peaceful Cheyenne village by Colorado militia

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Sitting bull

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Sioux Cheif

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George A Custer

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US cavalry commander

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Battle of the Little Big Horn

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Famous battle between US troops and Native Americans

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Wounded knee massacre

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Mass killing of Native Americans by US troops

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Dawns Act

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Plan to give Native Americans land to farm

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Homestead

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A piece of land and the house on it

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Mexicano

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Spanish-speaking Southwestener

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William Buffalo Bill Cody

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Buffalo hunter who promoted life in the west

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Buffalo soldier

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Name given to an African-American serving in the US Army in the west

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Homestead act

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Law that offered land to anyone who agreed to settle it

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Exoduster

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An African-American who migrated to the west

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Sodbuster

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A farmer on the Great Plains

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Grange

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Group that helped farmers

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Cooperative

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Farm organization owned and run by its members

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Populist party

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National political party formed by farm groups

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Gold standard

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System in which government backed every dollar with a certain amount of gold

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William Jennings Bryan

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Presidential candidates supported by populist and Democrats

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