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Ch.6 Study Guide

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Drilling for _________________________ spurs the oil industry. It is ________________, liquid, and _______________________. Petroleum Oily Flammable
What is the business cycle? When you have ups and downs in business.
What was the new steel method called which used less coal? Bessemer Steel Process
____________________________ opened a lab in 1876. He found the most ways to use electricity. Thomas Edison
What was Thomas Edison's most famous invention? Practical Electric Lightning
Where did America celebrate its hundredth birthday? Centennial Exhibition
What was the document called where you had the right to make and sell your inventions? Patent
A transcontinental railroad is one that spans the _____________________ ____________________. entire continent
The railroad companies set up ___________________ time and divided the U.S. into ____________ _____________ ____________. standard four time zones
Who dominated the oil industry? John D. Rockefeller
Who dominated the steel industry? Andrew Carnegie
Rockefeller gained reputation as a _________________ ____________________ _________________. ruthless robber baron
What is the person called who becomes wealthy from dishonest methods? Ruthless Robber Baron
What time had serious problems like hiding corrupt politics, and widespread poverty? Gilded Age
What is the word that means covered in a gold leaf (can disguise cheap or rotten). The wealth of a few people can hide society problems. Gilded
A person who gives away a great deal of money to charity. Philanthropist
A business leader who becomes wealthy through dishonest methods. Robber Baron
A company that wipes out its competitors and controls an industry. Monopoly
A wealthy businessman who controlled the oil industry. John D. Rockefeller
A legal body created to hold stock in many companies, often in the same industry. Trust
A wealthy businessman who controlled the steel industry. Andrew Carnegie
The era of the late 1800's, which was a time of fabulous wealth for a few Americans. Gilded Age
A national organization. It allowed ________________ and ____________________ Americans to join. Knights of Labor Woman and African Americans
When union leaders and police clash and several are killed. Haymarket Affair
What does Andrew Carnegie reduce at the mills? Wages
What caused the Pullman Strike? When wages were cut 25%
________________ were caused by wages being cut. Strikes
Who started a new organization of unions called American Federation of Labor or AFL? Samuel Gompers
Inventor ________________ _________________ found several ways to use electricity, including a practical light bulb, the phonograph, and a moving picture viewer. Thomas Edison
Writers Mark Twain and Charles Warner called the late 1800's the _________________ _________, a name that symbolized how the wealth of a few people hid societies problems. Gilded Age
The ________________ ____________________ was ended when President Grover Cleveland sent out federal troops and jailed the leader of the union. Pullman Strike
A pattern of good times and bad times. Business Cycle
A leader of the oil industry John D. Rockefeller
A company that controls an industry. Monopoly
A document protecting an inventor's rights. Patent
An organizer of the AFL. Samuel Gompers
A person who contributes money to charity. Philanthropist
A place were workers labor for long hours under poor conditions for low pay. Sweatshop
A leader of the American Railway Union. Eugene V. Debs
A leader of the steel industry. Andrew Carnegie
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