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US History(Honors) CH 6-Study Guide-A New Industrial Age

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show Christopher Sholes  
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Who invented the telephone?   show
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show Henry Bessemer  
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show Edwin L. Drake  
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Who perfected the incandescent light bulb at his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey?   show
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show Thomas Alva Edison  
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show Oil,coal, and iron  
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How did the Bessemer process allow better use of iron ore?   show
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What new uses for steel were developed at this time?   show
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Recognizing how important railroads were for settling the West, the government made large ________ to the rail road companies.   show
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show 1) Chinese 2) Irish  
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Under railroad time, the United States was divided into ___ time zones.   show
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Various measures enacted to regulate railroads were known as ___.   show
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show financial companies  
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In what ways did the railroad companies use their power to hurt farmers?   show
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show 9 years later, the Supreme Court ruled that a state could not set rates on interstate commerce  
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show labor  
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show holding company  
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John D. Rockefeller became a magnate of the..   show
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show unions  
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The Great Strike of 1887 involved workers for some of the nation's...   show
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show Haymarket Affair  
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By World War I, membership in the American Federation of Labor was around...   show
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