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SS chapter 6

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drilling for ? spurs the oil industry.   petrouleum  
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What is the business cycle?   The bad and good times of a industries.  
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New steel making method,uses less coal.   The Bessemer steel process.  
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who opened a lab? In what date? Found out how to use electricity what was his most famous invention.   1.Thomas Edison 2.1876 3.practical electric lighting.  
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What is Centennial Exhibition?   Americas 100th birthday.  
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What is patent?   A document given to inventor giving them the right to sell their inventions.  
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A transcontinental railroad is one that?   Spanned the entire continent.  
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The railroad company set up ? time and divided the U.S. into ? time zones.   1. stander time 2. four time zones.  
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Who dominated the oil industry? Who dominated the steel industries? Rockefeller created monopolies which does what>   1.John D. Rockefeller 2.Andrew Carnegie 3.A company that wipes out its competitor.  
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As what did Rockefeller gain his reputation?   Ruthless Robber baron.  
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What was a Ruthless Robber baron?   A business leader who became wealthy from dishonest methods.  
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What were both men? (gave large sums of money to charity.   Philanthropists  
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The term Gilded Age meant that although society had wealthy people,there were some serious problems like what?   Corrupt Polities,and widespread poverties.  
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Knights and Labor was it allowed   1.union organization 2.women and African Americans  
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what was the event where union leaders and police clash ,several are killed.   haymarket Affair  
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Andrew Carnegie reduced the ?   Wages at his steel mill in Pennsylvania.  
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The Pullman strike was caused when   Pullman Place car company lowered wages 25%.  
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What made strikes be made.   Wages being cut.  
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who started a new organization of unions called what?   1. Samuel Gompers 2.America Federation of Labor (AFL)  
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What inventor found several ways to use electricity including the practical light bulb,the phonograph, and a moving picture viewer.   Thomas edison  
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Writer Mark Twain and charles warner called the late 1800s the what?   Gilded age  
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The what strike was ended when president grover cleveland sent out federal troops and jailed the leader of the union.   Pullman Strike.  
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