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vocabulary chapter 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sherman anti-trust act | federal law to stop the abuse of big business |
| thomas edison | invented the phonograph, light, microphone, and kento scope |
| john d Rockefeller | american business man from the 19th century founded a oil company |
| alexander graham bell | he was a scientist inventor and engineer |
| bessemer process | found a easier way to make steel that it was faster and more economic |
| gospel of wealth | an article that andrew wrote describing the responsibilities of philanthropist in the upper class self made |
| union | to act as a group instead of individual between workers |
| child labor | they make kids work |
| monopoly | a company having complete control over the supplying of product or service |
| philanthropy | giving away money for good sources |
| interstate commerce act of 1887 | federal law that was designed to regulate rail roads industry's |
| trans continental rail road | it was first completed in 1869 and it travel to California |