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Edison
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established worlds 1st research lab
Perfected the incadescent light bulb |
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Alexander Graham Bell
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invented the phone
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George Pullman
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built a factory for making railroad cars
Provided clean houses, doctors, offices and shops for his employees |
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Transcontinental Railroad
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Railroad stretched to Utah
Provided jobs for immigrants connected different regions of the US Created time zones |
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Interstate Commerce Act
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reestablished the right of the federal government to supervise the railroad activities and lower the rates
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Andrew Carnegie
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Made a fortune in steel
Started working with the railroads, then entered the steel business |
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries
(was made so that corporations could not stop competition) |
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Samuel Gompers
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Led the Cigar Makers International Union to join with other craft unions in 1886
President of the American Federation of Labor AFL focused on bargaining, and negotiation between representatives of labor and management |
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Focused on collective bargaining and negotiating between representatives of labor and management to reach written agreements on wages, hours, and working conditions.
Used strikes to reach many of the agreements between the workers and the management |
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Mary Harris Jones
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Very important leader in the women's labor movement
fought for better working conditions Organized for the United Mine Workers of America |
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Edwin L. Drake
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First person to succesfully use a steam engine to remove oil from the ground.
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Bessemer process
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Injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon adn other impurities
By 1880 this process was used to create over 90% of the nation's steel |
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Christopher Sholes
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Invented the typewriter
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How many time zones is the Continental US divided into?
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Continental US is divided into 4 time zones
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If it is 5 o'clock Eastern Time what time is it centeral time?
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4 o'clock
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Which 2 railroads reached the west coast in 1869?
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Union Pacific Railroad
Central Pacific Railroad |
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How did electricity effect factories?
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the machines in the factories were ran by electricity
the factories could move away from other power sources such as rivers |
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Social Darwinism
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A belief that a process of "natural selection" weeds out less suited individuals adn enables the best adapted to survive
This process discourages government regulation |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
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Killed 146 women workers when a fire broke out in the factory
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Scabs
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people that were hired to break strikes
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