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The New Industrial Revoulution
A flashcard set on some of the crucial people in the industrial revoulution (1800s-1910s)
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History
8th Grade
03/25/2015

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Patent
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A document giving someone the sole right to make and sell inventions
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Thomas Edison
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A famous inventor who invented the light bulb, phonograph, the motion picture camera, and many more useful devices to help daily life including the first electric powerplant
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Inventor of the telephone with his assistant in 1876
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Henry Ford
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An American manufacturer he made the automobile available to millions
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Assembly Line
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A manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a conveyor belt
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Wilbur and Orville Wright
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Creates the airplane in 1903, which was tested in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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How long did the first flight last?
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12 seconds
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Who perfected the assembly line?
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Henry Ford
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Where was Thomas Edison`s invention factory?
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Menlo Park, New Jersey
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Entrepreneur
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is someone who sets up new businesses to make a profit
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Corporations
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Businesses owned by many investors
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Monopoly
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A company that controls most or all businesses in a particular industry
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Andrew Carnegie
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an entrepreneur and philanthropist in the steel industry.
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John D. Rockefeller
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a famous investor in the oil industry
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Trust
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a group of companies run by a single board of directors
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Free Enterprise
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the system in which privately owned businesses compete freely
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Samuel Gompers
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the former of the labor union AFL
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Collective Bargaining
Definition
Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
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