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chap 6 s.s study gui
Term | Definition |
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petroleum | oily,flammable liquid used to produce oil |
patent | A document declaring an invention yours |
business cycle | Good and bad times in the American industry pace |
trust | a legal body created to hold stock in many companies of the same indstury |
Bessemer steel process | A way of making steel using less coal |
gilded age | It was a time meaning that even though their was rich society still caused problems |
Centennial Exhibition | An event celebrating Americas 100th year |
Haymarket Affair | A protest meeting that ended horribly |
Standard time | A system that divided the country into 4 time zones |
Monopoly | A company that wipes out it's competitors and controls that indstury |
Thomas Edison | He is the inventor of the lightbulb |
Alexander Graham Belle | The inventor of the telephone |
Andrew carnrgie | controller of the steel indstury |
John D Rockefeller | controller of the oil industry |
Samuel Gompers | Formed the AFL |
robber baron | A business leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods |
Knights of labor | loose federation workers from different trades |
philanthropist | People who gave large sums of money to charity's |
AFL | focused on improving working conditions by strikes boycotts and negations |
Sweat shop | places where workers worked for long hours for low wages |
transcontinental railroad | A railroad that spans an entire continent |