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| Developed the first telephone with commercial capacity |
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| Italian inventor that took the first steps in developing the radio |
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| A pioneer of electric lighting that invented the arc lamp for street illumination |
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| In 1866 laid a transatlantic telegraph to Europe |
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| A process for converting iron into the much more durable and versatile steel |
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| An Englishman that develop the Bessemer process |
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| an American that, along with Henry Bessemer, developed the Bessemer process |
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| Experimented with airplanes, and were the first to bring passengers on flights |
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| created one of the first corporate laboratories, and began corporate research and development |
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| Common car in the Gilded Age developed by Henry Ford |
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| Became rich by consolidating several large railroad companies |
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| The idea that one person could not be legally responsible for one company |
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| A Scottish Immigrant that gained wealth in the railroad industry who started the steel corporations in Pittsburg |
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| Bought U.S. Steel for $450 million and made it into a $14 corporation |
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| Steel Corporation made from the ground up by Andrew Carnegie |
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| Owner of Standard Oil and bought out competing oil companies |
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| 4/5 fineries belonged to Standard oil and John D. Rockefeller |
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| Patented a sewing machine and created I.M. Singer Company |
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| informal agreements among various companies to stabilize rates and divide markets |
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| - a central corporate body that would buy up the stock of various members of a company and establish direct, formal ownership of the corporation in the trust |
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| Buy up other companies that contribute to your range of products |
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| Buy up other companies that produce your range of products |
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| Stockholders in individual corporations transferred their stocks to a small group of trustees |
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| In human society only the fittest individuals survived and flourished in the marketplace |
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| Writer of famous success stories; “self-made man” |
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| Andrew Carnegie’s book on people of wealth |
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| When an industry was under the control of one company |
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| Militant labor organization that used violence against the coal operators |
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| Workers, business and professional people and women that wanted to make an eight-hour work day and remove child labor |
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| Rival association of the Knights of Labor with representatives of a number of craft unions, skilled workers |
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| Bombed by radical leaders during a strike that killed seven police men and injured sixty-seven more |
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| Strike at the Pullman Palace Car Company, where the strikers failed |
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| Frederick Law Olmstead, Calvert Vaux |
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| Helped design Central Park as a public space |
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| Designed as a public space in New York City that looked as little like the city as possible |
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| Danish immigrant; Photographer of the slums and homeless |
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| Book by Jacob Riis that provide pictures and descriptions of the lower class |
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| A corrupt city boss of NYC’s Tammany Hall who used public funds and ended up in jail in 1872 |
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| Built a chain of dry good stores |
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| Established a large market for its mail-order merchandise that could be ordered by catalog |
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| In Chicago created one of the first American Department Stores |
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| A form of theatre adapted from French models that had a variety of different acts |
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| amusement park and resort on a popular beach in Brooklyn |
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| President with limited power from 1877-1881 |
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| President that was shot twice only 4 months after becoming president |
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| Succeeded Garfield as President who tried to support reform |
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| President after Arthur who was liked for his stern and righteous opposition to politicians, grafters, pressure groups, and Tammany hall |
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| president with a passive administration |
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| Made it so no companies could have trusts which was indifferently enforced |
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| banned discrimination in rates between long and short hauls, which required railroads to publish their rate schedules and file them with the government |
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| the first major farm organization |
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| formed cooperative and other marketing mechanisms with 4 million members |
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| A new political party with great appeal to farmers |
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| Speech by William Jennings Bryan that told people “you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold” |
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| Candidate for president that spoke the “A Cross of Gold” Speech |
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