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History industries after civil war
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History
8th Grade
01/12/2014

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Patent
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Document giving one the sole right to make and sell an invention
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Thomas Edison
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Inventor of the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera, and other devices
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Alexander Grahm Bell
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Inventor of the telephone
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Henry Ford
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Manufacturer who perfected a way to mass-produce automobiles
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Assembly Line
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Manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt
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Wilbur&orville wright
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Brothers who tested a gas powered airplane at kitty hawk, North Carolina
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Christopher Sholes
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Typewriter
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George Eastman
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Light camera
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Granville Woods
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Train telegraph delivery
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Jan Matzeliger
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Shoe-making machine
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Entrepreneur
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One who sets up new businesses to make a profit
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Corporation
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Business owned by many investors
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Monopoly
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Company that controls most or all businesses in an industry
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Andrew Carnagie
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Leader of the steel industry
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John D. Rockefeller
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Leader of the oil industry
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Trust
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Group of corporations run by a single board of directors
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Free enterprise
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System in which privately owned businesses compete freely
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Samuel Gompers
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Founder of the American federation of labor
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Collective bargaining
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Process in which unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
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