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| Steel | Alloy of iron and carbon that is widely used in construction and other applications because of its hardness and tensile strength-Andrew Carnegie
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| Henry Bessemer | Developed first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace
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| Railroad | Pullman Strike- Railroad workers walked out because of wage cuts and hours, Pres. Cleveland called in National Guard to stop it
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| Chicago | Location of Haymarket Riot - occured during a labor rally , started when someone threw a bomb killing a police officer
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| Henry Frick | Andrew Carnegie's business partner- whose decisions caused ////
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| South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club | Private exclusive club for wealthy, owned South Fork damn which burst, flooding Johnstown
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| Jim Hill | Owner of Great Northern Railroad
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| Standard Oil | Formed by John D. Rockefeller
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| Commodore | Nick name for Cornelius Banderbilt
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| Grand Central Depot | American long-distance passenger rail travel, it is the largest such facility in the world by number of platforms[5] with 44 serving 67 tracks along them
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| Cornelius Vanderbilt | American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping
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| John D. Rockefeller | Controlled oil industry through Standard Oil Company by setting up trusts with other oil companies
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| Robber Barons | Nickname given to industrialists and financiers implying that they stole their fortunes by paying their workers low wages
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| Captains of Industry | Nickname given to industrialists and financiers implying they were steering our country in the direction of economic progress
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| Vertical Consolidation | Gaining control of many different businesses that make up all phases of a product's development
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| Horizontal Consolidation | Bringing together many firms in the same business to form a large company
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| Cartels | Loose association of producers that coordinate prices and production
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| Laissez Faire | Doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights
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| Socialism | A way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government
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| Eugene V. Debs | Socialist who ran for President 5 times, founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World Union
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| Ellis Island | New York port of entry for immigrants
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| Angel Island | San Francisco, Calif. port of enty for immigrants
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| Suburb | Residential area surrounded by a city
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| Tenement | Multistory building divided into apartments to house several families, conditions often unsanitary
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| Steerage | The hold of a ship located under the main deck where animals and cargo are usually held.
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| Sharecropping | A farmer tends some portion of a planter's land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time a s payment
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| Dawes Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots
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| Assimilate | People of one culture merge into and become part of another culture
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| Populist Party | Formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms
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| William J. Bryan | Democratic Presidential candidate in 1896,
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| Plessy v. Ferguson | "Separate but Equal"
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| Grandfather Clause | Passage in a law that exempts a group of people from obeying the law if they had met certain conditions before the law was passed
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| Sufferage | Right to vote
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| Booker T. Washington | Told young African Americans to put aside their desire for political equality and focus on building economic security through gaining vocational skills
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| W.E.B. DuBois | Civil Rights Activist-brightest African Americans had to step forward to lead their people in their struggle for political and social equality
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| Ida B. Wells | Crusaded against lynching of blacks
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| Wyoming | First state to allow women to vote
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| Spoils System | The giving of government jobs to friends and supporters by newly elected officials
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| Republicans | Supported high protective tariffs
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| Democrats | Supported lower duties, or taxes, on imported goods
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| Grange | 1867, organization helped southern and western farmers form cooperatives and pressured state legislatures to regulate businesses on which farmers depended
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| Farmers Alliance | Organized agrarian economic midwest movement among American farmers that developed and flourished
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| James Otis | Member of US group called "Committee of Correspondence" that coordinated resistance throughout the colonies to British rule
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