vocab
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| show | A cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850
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| show | A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869
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| show | A construction company formed in 1864 by owners of the Union Pacific Railroad, who used It to fraudulently skim off railroad profits for themselves
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| show | An 1877 case is which the Supreme Court upheld states' regulation of railroads for the benefit of farmers and consumers, thus establishing the right of government to regulate private industry to serve the public interest
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| show | A law, enacted in 1887, that established the federal government's right to supervise railroad activities and created a five-member Interstate Commerce Commission to do so.
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| Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) | show 🗑
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| show | an economic and social philosophy-supposedly based on the biologist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection
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| Sherman Antitrust Act | show 🗑
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| American Federation of Labor (AFL) | show 🗑
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| Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) | show 🗑
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| Edwin Drake | show 🗑
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| show | inventor who perfected the incandescent light and made electricity safer and less expensive
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| show | invented the typewriter
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| show | invented the telephone
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| show | railroad car mogul who built a town to house his employees
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| show | Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in steel
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| John D. Rockefeller | show 🗑
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| Samuel Gompers | show 🗑
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| show | organized coal miners, their wives, and children to fight for better working conditions
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| show | organized the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a socialist
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| show | a company's taking over its suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain total control over the quality and cost of its product
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| show | the merging of similar companies that make similar products to control the market
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