Chapter 6 Vocab
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| petroleum | oily liquid, flammable
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| Bessemer Steel Process | new steel making process, uses less coal more steel at lower price
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| generator | is a machine that produces an electrical current
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| Thomas Edison | an inventor, invented electric light and other things
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| Alexander Graham Bell | an inventor, invented the telephone and other things
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| patent | a document giving an inventor rights to make and sell their invention
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| Centennial Exhibition | an exhibition to celebrate Americas 100th Birthday
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| business cycle | a pattern of good and bad times
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| transcontinental railroad | a railroad that spans the entire continent
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| standard time | divides the U.S. into 4 time zones
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| robber baron | a leader who becomes wealthy through dishonest ways
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| corporation | a business owned by investors
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| Andrew Carnegie | a wealthy businessmen who controlled the steel industry
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| John D. Rockefeller | a wealthy businessmen who controlled the oil industry
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| monopoly | wipes out competitors and controls an industry
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| trust | are created to hold stock in a company
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| philanthropists | people who give away large sums of money to charities
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| Gilded Age | the wealth of few people hid society's problems
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| sweatshops | places where workers labor long hours under poor condidtions
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| Knights of Labor | an organization of workers from all different trades
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| socialism | all members of a society are equal owners of all businesses
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| Haymarket Affair | union leaders and police clash, several are killed
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| Pullman Strike | workers wages were cut
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| Eugene V. Debs | a leader of the American Railway union
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| Samuel Gompers | an organizer of the AFL
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| American Federation of Labor (AFL) | a national organization of unions that included 1.7 members by 1904
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