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Chapter 6 S.S. Vocab
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Term | Definition |
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Petroleum | A type of oil used in many ways |
Patent | A document that give people rights to make and sell their inventions |
Business Cycle | A pattern of good times and bad times for businesses |
Bessemer Steel Process | A method that uses less coal to make steel |
Generator | A machine that produces electric current |
Thomas Edison | An inventor who invented the phone-o-graph and the practical electric lighting |
Centennial Exhibition | An exhibition in Philadelphia to celebrate America's 100th birthday |
Christopher Latham Sholes | Invented the typewriter and resembled the piano keys |
Elias Howe | Made the sewing machine and was awarded for it |
Isaac Singer | Invented the sewing machine in 1850 and formed the singer company in 1857 |
Jan Matzeliger | Patent for the shoe lasting in 1883 which increased the ability of shoes and decreased the price, also in 1889, the Consolidated Lasting Machine Company was formed |
trust | a legal body created to hold stock in many other company's, often in the same industry |
Gilder Age | the 1800s, a time of fabulous wealth |
Haymarket Affair | a meeting when someone threw a bomb and several people were killed and about a 100 were wounded |
standard time | a system that divided the U.S. into four time zones |
monopoly | a company that wipes out its competitors and controls an industry |
Alexander G. Bell | a Scottish immigrant who taught deaf people and invented the telephone |
Andrew Carnegie | led the steel indutry |
John D. Rockefeller | led the oil industry |
Samuel Gompers | found the AFL and was president of it for 37 years |
robber baron | a business leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods |
Knights of Labor | a loose federation of workers from all different trades |
philonthropist | people who give large sums of money to charity's |
AFL | focused on improving working conditions |
sweatshop | places where workers labored long hours under poor conditions for low wages |
transcontinental railroad | a railroad spanned the the entire country |