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$2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $1 Vocabulary I Vocabulary II Inventors and Inventions Industry and Industrialists Labor Unions And Labor Conflicts
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The doctrine that government should not interfere in economic affairs
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Laissez-faire
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The practice of combining separate companies into one
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Consolidation
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Discount or return of part of a payment
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Rebate
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A group sharing in some activity, for example among railroad barons who made secret agreements and set rates among themselves
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Pool
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Define mass production
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The production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line
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A system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as items pass before him or her
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Assembly Line
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A business in which investors own shares
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Corporation
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Shares of ownership a company sells in its business which often carry voting power
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Stock
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Organization of workers with the same trade or skill
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Trade Union
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Define collective bargaining
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Discussion between an employer and union representatives of workers over wages, hours and working conditions
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Operators sent messages in morse code Offers instant communication Connects United States and Europe
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Telegraph
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Invented by Alexander Graham Bell – offers instant communication
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Telephone
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The electric light bulb was invented by this man
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Thomas Edison
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“Broke the bonds of Earth and see the world in a new way” Attracted attention of United States military in 1911 What is it and who invented it?
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The Engine Powered Aircraft The Wright Brothers
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Between 1860 and 1890, the government granted over 400,000 of these for new inventions.
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Patents
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These stimulate steel, lumber and coal industries
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Railroads
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This Captain of Industry made his fortune in the steel business, was a philanthropist and used vertical integration.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Owner of Standard Oil Company, used horizontal integration, philanthropist?
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John D. Rockefeller
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Who was Henry Ford?
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Famous for the introduction of the first mass produced automobile and the use of the assembly line
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What is horizontal integration?
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Combining competing companies into one corporation
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When collective bargaining failed, labor unions often used these to achieve their aims
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Strikes
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strike at Carnegie Steel plant to protest a wage cut
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Homestead Strike
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What was the Sherman Antitrust Act
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An ineffective and rarely enforced piece of legislation that prohibited monopolies and pools
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What is a strike breaker?
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Person hired to replace a striking worker in order to break up a strike
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The International Ladies Garment Workers Union was formed as a result of this incident
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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Final Jeopardy Answer
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Final Jeopardy Question
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