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The American Republic to 1877
Invention and Industry
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History
7th Grade
10/09/2006

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Jane Addams
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established the Hull House
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Henry Bessemer
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developed a proccess to make steel
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Samuel Gompers
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led the American Federation of Labor
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John D Rockefeller
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organized the Standard Oil Company
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Mark Twain
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wrote stories that described real lives
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Cyrus Field
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put a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866
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horizontal integration
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the combining of competeing firms into one corporation
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Knights of Labor
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America's first large industrial union
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Ellis Island
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place in New York Harbor where immigrants were processed
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Gilded Age
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Term associated with the late 1800s
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