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Industrial Age

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having to do with industry, business, or manufacturing   show
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a change from making things by hand to making them in factories   show
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Transportation took a huge leap forward with the invention of this.   show
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show tycoon  
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show Leland Stanford  
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This invention could only spin one thread at a time.   show
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This invention could spin 8 threads at a time.   show
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This renewable resource was used to power new textile (clothing) inventions.   show
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Name two inventions which changed the rate at which farmers could do their work and produce more.   show
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Which invention allowed buildings to be built much taller?   show
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Why couldn't tall buildings be made with iron?   show
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Who became a millionaire by mass producing steel?   show
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Who invented the light bulb and the phonograph?   show
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Who patented the first telephone?   show
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Who became the richest man in the world in the oil business?   show
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show Henry Ford  
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show Orville and Wilbur Wright  
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What term describes a situation where one company controls an entire industry and is so big and powerful that all of its competitors are destroyed?   show
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show Morganization  
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What was the name given to industrialists who controlled much of the nation's wealth?   show
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show Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs  
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What does suffrage mean?   show
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show Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton  
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show making alcohol illegal  
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show Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire  
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