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Misc Vocab
100
He is the inventor who established the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Who is Alexander G. Bell?
100

A worker who was called in to replace striking workers.

What is a strikebreaker?

100
A railway extending from coast to coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100

This individual had a steel empire

Who is Carnegie?

100
A shop where employees worked long hours at low wages under poor working conditions.
What is a sweatshop?
200
This inventor developed a code for the telegraph.
Who is Samuel B. Morse?
200

Two goals of the Knights of Labor.

What shorter hours, higher wages, equal pay for men and women

200
An easier and cheaper was to remove the impurities from iron.
What is the Bessemer process?
200
A business that has complete control of a market or business.
What is a monopoly?
200

A license to an invention issued by the government.

What is a patent.

300
This inventor developed a new way to make steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
300

This union was a craft union made up of trade unions that did not support African-Americans or women.

What is the American Federation of Labor?

300
This is a license that gives an inventor the exculsive right to make, use or sell an invention for a set period of time.
What is a patent?
300

This individual controlled 95 percent of oil refining in the US

Who is JD Rockefeller?

300
This individual had a railroad empire thru ruthless practices.

Who is Vanderbilt?

400

This individual invented the lightbulb

Who is Thomas Edison?

400
A process in which workers negotiate as a single group with employers.
What is collective bargaining?
400

This was different at first in Southern and Northern railroads

What are guages?

400

Gaining control of different businesses that make up all phases of production, from raw materials to finished product.

What is vertical  integration?

400

A group of corporations under a single board of director

What is a trust

500

This individual invented the refrigerated railroad car.

Who is Gustavus Swift?

500

This law designed to break up monopolies broke labor unions instead.

What is Sherman Antitrust Act

500
An act that outlawed the combination of companies that restrained interstate trade and commerce.
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
500

The bringing together of many firms in the same business.

What is pools and consolidation?

500

This individual fought for the rights of working womena and an end to child labor

Who is Mary Harris Jones

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