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| African American inventor who played a key role and improving practical electrical lighting |
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| inventor of the electric bulb and many other devices |
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| inventor of the telephone |
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| founder of the standard oil trust |
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| buit the U.S. steel industry |
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| a buissness leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods |
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| late 1800's eara of fabulous wealth |
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| government documents giving an inventor to the exclusive righ to make and sell an invention for a specific number of years |
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| a buissness owned by investors who buy parts of it through share of stock |
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| business that gains control an indrustry by emininating other competitors |
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| a legal body created to hold stock in many companies, often with a industry |
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| the pattern of good and bad econmic times |
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| an investor who buys part of a company through shares of stock |
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| a period of low econmic acitivty |
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| laws enacted in southern states designed to seperate |
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| New York harbor immigration station for European immigrants |
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| San Francisco bay immigration station for Asian immigrants |
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| a place where cultures blend |
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| a process of blending into society by adopting the dominnant culture |
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