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Chapter 6 S.S. Vocab
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| 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 pattern of good and bad times. |
| Bessemer Steel Process | New steel making method that used less coal. |
| Generator | A machine that produces electric current. |
| Thomas Edison | Opened a lab (1876) and found the most ways to use electricity. His most famous way was by making the light bulb. |
| Alexander Graham Bell | The man who invented the telephone in 1876. |
| Centennial Exhibition | An exhibition in Philadelphia to celebrate America's 100th birthday. |
| Christopher Latham Sholes | The man who developed the typewriter and resembled a piano and they were arranged in ABC order. |
| Elias Howe | The man who made the first sewing machine and awarded the machine patent in 1854. |
| Isaac Singer | Invented the sewing machine in 1850 and formed the biggest sewing machine manufacturer in the world, Singer. |
| Jan Matzeliger | Made the machine for the shoe lasting machine in 1883. |
| Trust | A legal body created to hold stock in many companies, often in the same industry. |
| Gilded Age | A time in the late 1800's of fabulous wealth for the rich. |
| Haymarket Affair | When union leaders called a protest at Haymarket Square. |
| Standard Time | The system that divided the United States into four time zones. |
| Monopoly | To put your competitors out of business to control an industry. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Owned corporations and dominated the steel industry. |
| John D. Rockefeller | Owned corporations and led the oil industry. |
| Samuel Gompers | Helped found a new organization called AFL(American Federation of Labor) |
| robber baron | A business leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods. |
| Knights of Labor | A loose national organization who fought for workers rights unlike many other groups they let black people and women into their organization. |
| philanthropist | A wealthy persons who donated a lot of money to charity. |
| AFL(American Federation of Labor) | A national organization that worked for improving working conditions. |
| Gilded Age | A time of wealth for the rich |
| sweatshop | A small business where workers worked long hours for low pay in poor conditions. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad that crosses the entire continent. |
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