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