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Chap.6 S.S Vocab
Page 1- Vocab Pg. 4- Inventors Notes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Petroleum | Oily,flammable liquid - used to produce Oil. |
| Patent | A Document giving an inventor rights to make and sell their inventions. |
| Business cycle | The Business Cycle was thst had a pattern of good times and bad times in the economy. |
| Bessemer Steel Process | Is a new steel making method, uses less coal. Some steel products include:Plows, Barbed wire, and beams. |
| Generator | Is a machine that produces electric light. |
| Thomas Edison | Was a famous scientist he opened a lab in 1876. His most famous invention: Practical electric light. |
| Alexander Graham Bell | He was a inventor, a teacher that taught the deaf how to reade lips, and he invented the telephone. |
| Centennial Exibition | A exhibition in philedelphia to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independance in philedelphia. |
| Haymarket affair | AN aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on tues. May 4,1886 in chicago. |
| standard time | The time for 4 different time zones. |
| monopoly | Is a company that wipes out its competetors and control an industry. |
| Andrew Carnegie | A scottish american industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the steel american industry. |
| John D rockefeller | An American magnate and philanthropist.A co-founder of the oil company, which dominated the oil industry and the first great U.S business trust. |
| Samuel Gompers | An english-born american cigar maker that became a georgist labor union and a key figure in american labor history. |
| robber baron | A business leader that becomes wealthy by dishonest methods. |
| knights of labor | A loose fedaration of workers from different trades. |
| philanthropists | People that gave large sums of money to charites. |
| AFL (American Fedaration of Labor) | A national fadaration of unions in the united states. |
| Sweatshop | A place where workors labored long hours under porr conditions for low wages. |
| Transcontinental railroad | A railroad that could span the whole continent |
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