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chap.6 s.s vocab
social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Petroleum | an oily flammable liquid |
| patent | a document giving an inventor rights to make and sell their inventions. |
| business cycle | a pattern of good and bad times in business. |
| Bessemer steel process | new steel making method , uses less coal. |
| generator | is a machine that produces electric current. |
| Thomas Edison | opened a lab in the year of 176,found the most ways to use electricity. |
| Alexander Grambell | invents the telephone on the date of 1876 |
| centennial exhibittion | was an event when you can show your inventions.celabrate 100 birthday |
| Christopher Latham Soles | Developed the first typewriter |
| Elias Howe | made the first sewing machine |
| Isaac Singer | invented the sewing machine in 1850 |
| Jan matzeliger | patent for the shoe lasting machine in 1883 |
| Glided age | Was a national organization of unions that included about 1.7 million members by 1904 |
| Haymarket Affair | in 1886 a union protest resulted in about 100 dead after an unknown person threw a bomb and police opened fire on the crowd. |
| standard time | a system adopted in 1918 that divide the united states into four time zones. |
| monopoly | is a company that wipes out its competitors and controls a industry.a |
| Andrew carnegie | led steel industry. |
| Jhon D. Rockefeller | led the oil industry. |
| Samuel Gompers | us labor leader |
| robber baron | was a business leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods. |
| knights of labor | it was a loose federation of workers from a diffrent trade . |
| philanthropist | a person who gives large sums of money to charities. |
| AFL (American federation of labor) | a national organazation of labor unions founded in 1886. |
| Sweatshop | is a place where workers labored long hours under poor conditions for low wages. |
| transcontinental railroad | the transcontinental railroad was a railroad that went around the continents. |
| hoover | he was one of americas presidents. He was the 31st president in the years of 1929-1933.He wanted poverty to banish. |
| coolidge | coolidge was the 30th president of the united states.He was president in the years of 1923-1929.He becomes president because harding dies. |
| harding | harding was the 29th president of the united states. He was president in the years of 1921-1923.Hedies and coolidge becomes president. |
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