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SS chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| drilling for ? spurs the oil industry. | petrouleum |
| What is the business cycle? | The bad and good times of a industries. |
| New steel making method,uses less coal. | The Bessemer steel process. |
| who opened a lab? In what date? Found out how to use electricity what was his most famous invention. | 1.Thomas Edison 2.1876 3.practical electric lighting. |
| What is Centennial Exhibition? | Americas 100th birthday. |
| What is patent? | A document given to inventor giving them the right to sell their inventions. |
| A transcontinental railroad is one that? | Spanned the entire continent. |
| The railroad company set up ? time and divided the U.S. into ? time zones. | 1. stander time 2. four time zones. |
| Who dominated the oil industry? Who dominated the steel industries? Rockefeller created monopolies which does what> | 1.John D. Rockefeller 2.Andrew Carnegie 3.A company that wipes out its competitor. |
| As what did Rockefeller gain his reputation? | Ruthless Robber baron. |
| What was a Ruthless Robber baron? | A business leader who became wealthy from dishonest methods. |
| What were both men? (gave large sums of money to charity. | Philanthropists |
| The term Gilded Age meant that although society had wealthy people,there were some serious problems like what? | Corrupt Polities,and widespread poverties. |
| Knights and Labor was it allowed | 1.union organization 2.women and African Americans |
| what was the event where union leaders and police clash ,several are killed. | haymarket Affair |
| Andrew Carnegie reduced the ? | Wages at his steel mill in Pennsylvania. |
| The Pullman strike was caused when | Pullman Place car company lowered wages 25%. |
| What made strikes be made. | Wages being cut. |
| who started a new organization of unions called what? | 1. Samuel Gompers 2.America Federation of Labor (AFL) |
| What inventor found several ways to use electricity including the practical light bulb,the phonograph, and a moving picture viewer. | Thomas edison |
| Writer Mark Twain and charles warner called the late 1800s the what? | Gilded age |
| The what strike was ended when president grover cleveland sent out federal troops and jailed the leader of the union. | Pullman Strike. |
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