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The total value of all goods and services that a country produces
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Drilled the 1 st oil well in Pennsylvania.
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More than 17 million immigrants arrived in the U.S. between 1870-1910.
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Invented the telephone.
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Invented the phonograph and the light bulb
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Automatic loom allows cloth to be made faster
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Allowed railroad cars to keep meat cold during transport
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Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation’s economy.
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One who organizes, manages and assumes the risk of a business
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The 1 st of many lines that began crisscrossing the nation.
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One of the most successful railroad consolidators
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People who loot an industry and give nothing back.
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Corrupt railroad owner who manipulated stock
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Organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a person
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Shares of ownership in a company
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Steel entrepreneur
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Owns all the different businesses on which it depends for its operation.
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Standard Oil Entrepreneur
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Combines firms in the same business into 1 large corporation
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United all workers in a particular industry
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More than 100 people died & over $10 million in railroad property was destroyed.
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1 st successful labor union
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Strike speeches turned to violence and a bomb was thrown
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4 month strike when workers were locked out and replacement workers were brought in.
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Formal court order to end a boycott
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The dominant union of the 1800’s
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1 st president of the AFL
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Group of labor radicals- many were socialists
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By 1900 women made up 18% of the workforce
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Industrialization & urbanization had created many social problems
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A journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in society
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All party members vote for a candidate to run in the general election.
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The right to vote.
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1. Against child labor 2. Wanted safer working conditions 3. Sherman antitrust act:
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Illegal to form trusts
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Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up monopolies
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Wrote the best selling book “The Jungle” about the meat packing industry.
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Required federal inspection of meat shipped across state lines.
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Prohibited the sale of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs
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