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Industrial Revolution
Chapter 6 Creating America Textbook
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History
8th Grade
09/29/2009

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Patent
Definition
Gives the inventor the right to make or sell his/her invention for a specific number of years.
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Business Cycle
Definition
The ups and downs of business growth in American Industry.
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Bessemer steel process
Definition
Henry Bessemer created a new process to increase steel output. Led to more steel products including rails for railroads.
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Generator
Definition
Machine used to produce electricity.
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Thomas Edison
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Inventor with over 1,0000 U.S. patents. 1876 opened laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Created a workable light bulb.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Definition
Scottish immigrant. Invented the telephone.
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Transcontinental railroad
Definition
Railroad that spanned the entire U.S. helped bring the entire country together.
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Corporation
Definition
A business owned by investors who buy part of the company through shares of stock.
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John D. Rockefeller
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Oil man. Created monopolies to wipe out his competition.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Steel man. Controlled all aspects of the steel making process to make the best and cheapest steel for sale.
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Gilded Age
Definition
A time in history where few were extremely rich, but many were poor.
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Sweatshops
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Place were workers were payed low wages for long hours of work in unsafe working conditions. Both children and adults worked here.
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Knights of Labor
Definition
Labor Union formed by many different trades. (Jobs)
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Socialism
Definition
The belief that all members of a society are equal owners of all business. They share the work and the profits. (money)
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Haymarket affair
Definition
7 Police killed and many injured during a union rally against McCormick Harvester Company.
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Pullman Strike
Definition
Railroad workers strike against pay cuts and rent charges to live in company housing.
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Samuel Gompers
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Founder (starter) of the AFL to improve working conditions for union workers.
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Eugene V. Debs
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American Railway Union President. Told U.S. railroad workers to not handle Pullman cars during the Pullman Strike.
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