The Rise of Industry
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| the total value of all goods and services prodced by a country | gross national product
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| in 1859, drilled the first oil well near titusville, pennsylvania | Edwin Drake
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| "let people do as they choose" | laissez-faire
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| people who risk their capital in organizing and running a business | entrepreneurs
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| reversed years of declining tariffs | Morrill Tariff
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| In 1876, a Scottish-American invented the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell
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| one of the most famous inventors of the late 1800's | Thomas Alva Edison
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| this act provided for the construction of a transcontinental railroad by two corporations, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroad companies | Pacific Railway Act
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| a former union general, the union pacific began pushing westward from Omaha, Nebraska, in 1865 | Grenville Dodge
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| became governor of California and later served as a U.S. senator after foudning standord University in 1885 | Leland Stanford
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| a former boat captain who had built the largest steamboat fleet in america | Cornelius Vanderbilt
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| regions where the same time was kept | time zones
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| person who often practiced "insider trading" | Jay Gould
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| was a construction company set up by several stockholders of the union pacific, including Oakes Ames | Credit Mobilier
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| Built and operated teh Great Northern Railroad from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Everett, Washington, without any federal land grants or subsidies. | James J. Hill
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