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social studies
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| petroleum | an oily flammable liquid |
| Bessemer Steel Process | a new steel making method that uses less coal and was created in the 1850s |
| generator | a machine that produces electricity |
| Thomas Edison | the inventor of the light bulb |
| Alexander Graham Bell | the inventor of the telegraph |
| patent | a document giving an inventor right to market and sell their invention |
| Centennial Exhibition | an Exhibition in Philadelphia that celebrates Americas 100th birthday |
| business cycle | a pattern of good and bad times |
| transnational railroad | a railroad that crosses an entire continent |
| standard time | the four time zones that railroad companies set up |
| robber baron | a business leader who became wealthy by using dishonest methods |
| corperation | a company that raises money by selling shares of stock |
| Andrew Carnegie | A wealthy business man who controlled the steel industry |
| John D. Rockefeller | A wealthy business man who controlled the oil company |
| monopoly | a company that wipes out its competitors and controls an industry |
| trust | a legal body created to hold stock in many companies often in the same industry |
| philanthropists | a person who contributes money to charity |
| Gilded age | The era of the late 1800s which was a time of fabulous wealth for a few Americans |
| sweatshops | a place where workers labor for long hours under poor conditions |
| Knights of Labor | an organization of workers for all different trades |
| socialism | |
| Haymarket affair | union leaders and police clash , several are killed |
| Pullman strike | |
| Eugene V Debs | Leader of the American Railway Union |
| Samuel Gompers | organizer of the AFL |
| American Federation of Labor |
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