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Flashcard Set for CH 25.3 VOCABULARY
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8th Grade
04/29/2014

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Politician

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Textbook Definition: A person who is professionally involved involved in politics, as a holder of or a candidate for an elected office.

Sentence: The politician made a speech.

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Andrew Carnegie

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Textbook Definition: A scottish immigrant

Sentence: Andrew Carnegie owned a company that made iron bridges for railroads.

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Vertical Integration

 

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Textbook Definition:The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by seperate companies.

Sentence: Vertical integration is where the supply chain of a company is owned by that company.

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Henry Bessemer

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Textbook Definition:Inventor of a less expensive method of making steel.
 Sentence:In 1872, a Scottish immigrant named Andrew Carnegie went to England to study a less expensive method of making steel, invented by Henry Bessemer.
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"Invention Factory"

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Textbook Definition:In 1876, Thomas Edison opened an "invention factory" in New Jersey
Sentence:Edison and his employees worked on several different inventions at the "invention factory."
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Henry Ford

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Textbook Definition:An American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Sentence: Automaker Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line. 
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Wilbur and Orville Wright

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Textbook Definition:Two American brothers, inventors, aviation pioneers who were credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane.
Sentence: Wilbur and Orville Wright obtained a patent for a flying machine-an airplane.
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Bessemer Process

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Textbook Definition: First inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace.

Sentence:Carnegie was so impressed by the Bessemer Process that he brought it back to the United States
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Thomas Edison

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Textbook Definition:In 1876, Thomas Edison opened an "invention factory" in New Jersey.
Sentence: In1882, Edison built the first electrical power station and distribution system in New York City.

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Textbook Definition: The telephone was invented by a Scottish immigrant named Alexander Graham Bell.

Sentence:Alexander's Graham Bell's invention worked so well that, by 1915, Americans were communicating with one another over nine million telephones.
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Mass Production

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Textbook Definition:The use of interchangeable parts and assembly lines to make large quantities of identical goods.
Sentence: These techniques of mass production enabled workers to produce more goods per day at less cost.

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Assembly Line

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Textbook Definition:A manufacturing process in which parts are added as the semi-finished assembly from work station to work station where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.
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Factories also used the assembly line

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George Westinghouse

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Textbook Definition: An American entreprenuer and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry.

Sentence: George Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system. 

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George Pullman

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Textbook Definition:An American engineer and industrialist.
 Sentence: George Pullman designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman.

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Cyrus Field

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Textbook Definition:An American businessman and financer.
Sentence: Along with other entrpreneurs, he created the Atlantic Telegraph Company.

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Jan Matzeliger

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Textbook Definition: An Afican American in the shoe in the shoe industries.

Sentence:He patented a shoe lasting machine that increased the availability of shoes.
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Gustavus Swift

 

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Textbook Definition: Founded a meat packing empire in the midwest during the late 19th century.

Sentence: Gustavus is credited with the developement of the first ice-cooled railroad car which allowed his company to ship dressed meats.

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George Eastman

 

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Textbook Definition:Americam innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company .
 Sentence: George Eastman made the first camera available.

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Hart, Diane. The United States through Industrialism. Palo Alto, CA: TCI, Teacher's Curriculum Institute, 2005. Print.
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