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show They offered secret discounts to their biggest customers, they divided the railway business among the larger companies and set rates for a region, and they bought some of the smaller businesses  
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How did railroads expand industry in the West?   show
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show The Pullman Sleeping Car-more comfortable overnight travel, The Refrigerated Car-meat could be shipped further because the train was cold, Janney Car Couplers-made it easier to link railcars, air brakes-made it easier to stop  
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show the standard width of a railroad track, so trains do not have to be switched out for different sized tracks  
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Assembly Line   show
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Mass Production   show
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What were two inventions that changed the war Americans communicated with each other?   show
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How was transportation improved during the early 1900s?   show
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What invention(s) was/were used mostly in rural areas?   show
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What invention(s) was/were used mostly in urban areas?   show
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show Kodak camera, the telephone, phonograph and the telegraph, and the train  
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What invention(s) was/were used mostly by business and industry?   show
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show Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and Birmingham, because they were near steel mines and waterways to ship goods  
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show #1-organized Standard Oil company and acquired many of the oil refineries in Cleveland and other cities, #2-Produced and used their own tank cars, pipelines and more, #3-lowered his prices to drive competition out of business  
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Steps 4-7   show
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How did consumers benefit from competition?   show
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Describe the similarities and the differences between the methods used by Rockefeller and Carnegie to build their industrial empires   show
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monopoly   show
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show higher wages, shorter hours, the right to bargain collectively with employers, and better working conditions  
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Terence Powderly   show
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Mary Harris Jones   show
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George Pullman   show
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show President of the U.S., sent federal troops to Chicago to stop the Pullman Strike  
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