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History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Petroleum | oily flammable liquid |
| Thomas Edison | Made the practical electric light bulb |
| Centennial Exhibition | a celebration of Americas 100th birthday |
| Bessemer Steel Process | new steel making method that uses lest coal |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone in 1876 |
| Business Cycle | a pattern of good times and bad times |
| Geneator | a machine that produces electricity |
| Transcontinental railroad | a railroad that spanned the entire continent |
| Patent | a document protecting an inventors rights |
| Transcontinental railroad | a railroad that spanned the entire continent |
| Monopoly | a company that wipes out competitors and controls an industry |
| Corperation | a company that raises money by selling shares of stock |
| Monopoly | a company that wipes out competitors and controls an industry |
| Andrew Carnige | a wealthy businessman who controlled the steel industry |
| Trust | a legal body created to hold stock in many companies often in the same industry |
| Standard time | time zones set up in the 1883 for railroads |
| Robber baron | a business leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods |
| John D. Rockefeller | a wealthy business man who controlled the oil industry |
| Philantropists | a person who gives a great deal of his or her money to charity |
| Gilded Age | the era of the late 1800s which was a time of great fabulous wealth for a few Americans |
| Sweat shops | a place were workers labor for long hours under poor conditions for low pay |
| Pullman Strike | a time when wages were cut |
| American Federation of Labor | an organization of unions |
| Knights of Labor | an organization of workers from all different trades it allowed women and blacks to join |
| Eugene V. Debs | a leader of American Railway Union |
| Socialism | socialists believe in it |
| Samuel Gompers | an organizer of AFL |
| Hay Market Affair | union leaders and police clash several are killed |
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