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American Industrial Revolution
The Guilded Age
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History
12th Grade
01/17/2008

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Homestead Act
Definition
provided cheap land out west
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Ulysses Grant
Definition
unsucessful president; scandlous administration including bribes and corrupt dealings
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Union Pacific
Definition
connected east and west
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Developments in railroads
Definition
air brakes and sleeping cars
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Cornelius Vanderbuilt
Definition
shipping and consolidation of railroads
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Horizontal integration
Definition
buying out/running out businesses.
Rockefeller, JP Morgan
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Vertical Integration
Definition
own everything involved in production.
Carnegie
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JP Morgan
Definition
Standard Oil Company; gospel of wealth
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James B Duke
Definition
Southerner who made his money in tobacco
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Birmingham
Definition
steel, bad pollution
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Sherman AntiTrust Act
Definition
in 1890 made monopolies illegal but provided no way to stop them
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clayton antitrust act
Definition
actually stopped monopolies
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unions
Definition
wanted higher wages, safer work conditions, no black lists
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Knights of labor
Definition
all types of workers
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american federation of labor
Definition
only skilled white men
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