Inventions
Inventors would be issued ______ to protect their designs from new inventions
Patents
What led to the end of the age of the cowboy?
Barbed Wire
This is when one business dominates an industry
Monopoly
Area outside of the city, but still connected
Suburban
Large open area beneath the ship's deck
Steerage
Person famous for using Direct Current and inventing the incandescent light bulb
Thomas Edison
Where are the Great Plains
Between the Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River
When people get paid by the number of items produce
Piecework
Settlement movement founders believed giving this never helped
Money
Would later be known as Oklahoma
Indian territory
Nikola Tesla invented this kind of electricity which could travel much farther distances
Alternating Currents
Home built into the side of a hill
Dugout
Idea that only the strong survive in business
Social Darwinism
This means to blend into a different culture
Assimilate
Using both gold and silver in out currency
Bimetallic standard
Invented Alternative Currents and the fluorescent light bulb
Nikola Tesla
Central Pacific Railroad out of Sacramento California used what nationality for labor?
Chinese
You need this to start a gigantic industrial business
Investment capital
European immigrants were given these to stop the spread of disease
Physicals
Segregation by Law
De Jure
Invented the "Talking Telegraph"
Alexander Graham Bell
This is government money given to a business that is vital to the American People
Subsidy
This process allowed for steel to be produced cheaply
Bessemer
Area where one ethnic group is present
Ghetto