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US2-C06-Vocab
US History 2 Chapter 6 Vocabulary
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History
11th Grade
09/09/2015

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Edwin L. Drake
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1859, make drilling for oil practical
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Bessemer process
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~1850, technique for producing steel
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Thomas Alva Edison
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1876, invented light bulb, first research laboratory
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Christopher Sholes
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1867, invented typewriter
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Alexander Graham Bell
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1876, invented telephone
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transcontinental railroad
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railroad spanning the nation
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George M. Pullman
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1880, built factory for manufacturing railroad cars
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Crédit Mobilier
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1864, a construction company, formed for control and profit
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Munn v. Illinois
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1877, Granger laws upheld, states won right to regulate railroads
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Interstate Commerce Act
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1887, gives government the right to supervise railroad activities, established the ICC
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Andrew Carnegie
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started the Carnegie Steel Company, manufactured more steel than Great Britain
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vertical integration
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process of buying out the suppliers of raw materials and transportation
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horizontal integration
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a process where companies producing similar products merge
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Social Darwinism
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a theory that success and failure in business were governed by natural law
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John D. Rockefeller
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established the Standard Oil Company, used a trust to control the entire oil industry
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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1890, made forming trusts illegal if it interferes with free trade
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Samuel Gompers
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Jewish immigrant, 1886, became president of the AFL
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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a craft union with skilled workers in multiple trades
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Eugene V. Debs
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attempted to form the ARU (American Railway Union) containing skilled and unskilled workers
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Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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1905, organized by a group of radical unionists and socailists
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Mary Harris Jones
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supported the Great Strike of 1877, organized the UMW (United Mine Workers of America)
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