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What were the names given to African American cowboys?
Buffalo Soldier
Business that gains control of industry by eliminating other competitors
Monopoly
Writer who exposed corruption in American society
Muckracker
I was the inventor of the telephone
Alexzander Graham Bell
Where did the Central Pacific Railroad START?
Omaha, Nebraska
A business owned by investors who buy part of it through shares of stock
Corporation
A business leader who became wealthy through dishonest methods
Robber Baron
I was the founder of Standard Oil Trust
John D. Rockerfeller
Where did the Union Pacific Railroad START?
Sacramento, California
Government documents giving an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell an invention for a specific number of years
Patent
Late 1800s era of fabulous wealth
Gilded Age
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Law that made it illegal for corporations to gain control of industries by forming trusts
Built U.S. steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Exchanging government jobs and contracts for political support
Patronage