Social studies Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Petroleum | oily,flammable liquid used in making kerosene, |
patent | document giving inventors the right to make and sell a product |
business cycle | a pattern of good and bad days |
trust | a legal body to hold stock in many companies |
Bessemer steel process | technique that produced steel more cheaply |
gilded age | time of tremendous wealth |
centennial exposition | the celebration of Americas 100th birthady |
Haymarket affair | a conflict between police and union members in Chicago |
standard time | system that divided the country into 4 different time zones |
monopoly | a company that has stole control of the industry |
Thomas Edison | he invented the practical light bulb |
Alexander g. Bell | developed the first telaphone |
Andrew Carnegie | leader of steel industry |
John d. Rockfeller | leader of oil industry |
Samuel Gompers | U.S. labor leader |
robber baron | became wealthy through dishonest ways |
knights of labor | allowed woman And African-Americans as members |
philanthropist | a person who donates money to charity |
AFL | used negotiated ways to solve problems |
sweatshop | workers experience hard labor and little pay |
transcontinental railroad | a railroad that crodses the entire continent |
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