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Industralization
Bidwell
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Consolidation | The practice of combining separate companies in an industry. |
| Economy | This expanded as a result of the fast growing national rail system. |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone. |
| Henry Ford | Invented the assembly line. |
| Model T Ford | "A car in which anyone could afford to buy, which anyone could drive anywhere." |
| Accidentally | The way in which Bell transmitted the sound of the human voice through electrical wires for the first time. |
| Injunction | A court order that keeps a labor union for striking. |
| Railroad Barons | These men controlled the nation's rail traffic. |
| Iron | Early tracks were made of this material. |
| Lewis Latimer | This man did not invent the light bulb but did make improvements. |
| Monopoly | Gaining almost total control of an industry. |
| Entrepreneurs | People who start a business. |
| Unfair Treatment | This and economic troubles drove people to emigrate. |
| Statue of Liberty | The symbol that greeted immigrants in New York Harbor. |
| Suburbs | Many middle class families lived here during the 1880's. |
| Gilded Age | A period of time with both extreme wealth and terrible poverty. |
| New Orleans | The city in which jazz music developed. |
| Mark Twain | A writer that was both a realist and a regionalist. |
| Tenements | Where many poor people lived. |
| Land, labor and capital | The factors of production. |
| Diseases | Because of dirty, crowded cities, this spread.... |
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