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Industry Inventors
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Gustavus Swift | developed railroad refrigerated cars |
| Cyrus Field | laid a transatlantic telegraph cable |
| Samuel Gompers | leader of the AFL |
| John D. Rockefeller | formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio |
| Sir Henry Steel | invented a new way of producing stronger steel |
| Andrew Carnegie | Gospel of Wealth |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| George Eastman | invented a small camera |
| Henry Ford | built the Model T + assembly line |
| Edwin Drake | petroleum industry |
| Jan Matzelinger | shoe-making machine |
| George Westinghouse | transformers |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | railroad tycoon |
| bomb was thrown and 11 people died | Haymarket Riot |
| Union dwindles after this event | Homestead strike |
| bought steel company from Andrew Carnegie | J.P. Morgan |
| Trusts Network | a group of corportations that unites to reduce competition and control prices |
| Monopoly Consolidate | a company that controls all production and sales of a product/service |