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| What are companies that have many of the same legal rights as individuals? |
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| What was the period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing in the late 1800’s? |
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| Second Industrial Revolution |
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| What is it called when companies are free of government involvement? |
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| What is it called when private business run most industries? |
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| What is buying all of the steps in a process called? |
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| What is the coining of both gold and silver? |
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| What meant that only gold could back U.S. currency? |
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| Who were people who opposed all forms of government? |
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| What is owning all the business in a certain field called? |
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| Who were people who start new businesses? |
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| What was passed to increase the amount of silver purchased for coining in the United States? |
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| Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
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| What was started by Oliver Hudson Kelley to help poor, suffering, farmers? A social and educational organization for farmers that wanted to make farmers’ lives better. |
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| What political party favored inflating the money supply with paper money not backed by gold or silver? |
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| What are one of two most famous labor unions of the late 1800’s that supported strikes? |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| What Strike at Pullman’s railroad town caused by worker firing and pay cuts... ended when mail cars were attached to the Pullman cars? |
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| What Strike happened at one of Carnegie's steel plant? |
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| What union built a network of local groups in the 1870s? |
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| Who invented the aircraft; made the first flight using a gas-powered engine, in Kitty Hawk, NC? |
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| Who was the major oil refiner who created a monopoly for Kerosene? And created the Standard Oil Company? |
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| Who invented the telephone? His company was later called American Telephone & Telegraph. (AT&T) |
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| Who pumped the first crude oil from the ground in Pennsylvania? |
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| Who designed passenger and sleeping cars to make train travel easier? |
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| Who toured the south for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and then he started the National Grange to help suffering farmers? |
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| Who invented the light bulb, nicknamed the Wizard of Menlo Park? |
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| Who was a famous Nebraska politician that ran for president and lost four separate times? |
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| Who made his money in steel? And was used in vertical integration, was great philanthropist... (gave away all of his money?) |
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| Who designed train air brakes to make trains safer? |
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| Who developed a cheaper and faster way to make steel purification process? |
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