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Chapt. 6 study guide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pretroleum | drilling for it spurs the oil industry. An oily flamible liquid. |
| Business Cycle | When the American industry experianced good and bad times. |
| Bessemer Steel Process | A new steel making method, that uses less coal. |
| Thomas Edison | Opened a lab in 1876,and found the most ways to use electricity. His most famous invention was practical electric lighting. |
| Centennial Exhibition | An exhibition in Philadelphia to celebrate America's 100th birthday.The telephone and other inventions amazed people. |
| Patent | A document giving inventors rights to make and sell their inventions. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad that spanned the entire continent. |
| The railroad companies set up? | A standard time and divided the United States into four time zones. |
| John D. Rockefeller | dominated the oil industry. |
| Andrew Carnegie | dominated the steel industry. |
| Monopolies | Wipes out it's compeditors and controls the industry. |
| Robber Baron | Is a business leader through dishonest methods. |
| Philanthropists | they gave large sums of money to charity. |
| Gilded Age | Although society had some wealthy people, there were some serious problems like curropt politics, and wide spread poverty. |
| Gilded | Coverd in gold leaf (can disguise something cheap or rotten.) the wealth of a few people can hide societies problems. |
| Trust | A legal body created to hold stock in many companies, often in the same industry. |
| Knights of Labor | A loose rederation of workers from all different trades. It allowed wemon and African American Workers to join. |
| Hay Market Affair | Union leaders and police clash several are killed. |
| Pullman Strike | caused when railroad workers pay was cut.Grover Cleveland sent out federal troops, and jailed the union leader. |
| AFL | Labor leaders samuel Gompers started a new organization of unions called the American Faderation of Labor. |
| Sweatshop | A place where workers labor for long hours under poor conditions for low pay. |
| Patent | A document protecting inventors rights. |
| Generator | A machine that generates electricity. |
| Sameul Gompers | An organizer of the AFL. |
| Eugene V. Debs | A leader of the American Railway union. |
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