Chapter 6 Us History Answers – Flashcards
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Edwin L. Drake
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Uses steam engine to drill for oil
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Eugene V. Debs
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Forms American Railway union; uses strikes
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Christopher sholes
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Invents typewriter in 1867
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John D. Rockefeller
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Founds standard oil company, forms trust
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Established first research laboratory
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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
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Most prominent organizer in women's labor
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George M. Pullman
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Builds rail car factory on Illinois prairie
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Alexander graham bell
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Invented the telephone
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Andrew Carnegie
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One of the first moguls to make own fortune
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Henry Bessemer
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Found process to make iron into steel
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Everyone who lived there worked in the Pullman car company
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Why was Pullman, Illinois, an unusual town?
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Triangle shirtwaist factory
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In what place did 146 women die in a fire?
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They replaced the strikers
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Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800's?
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Steel
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What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?
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Competition between steel companies
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What industrial consolidation and trusts reduce during the late 1800's?
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Electricity
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What allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers?
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Organized by radical unionists and socialists
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Who organized the industrial workers of the world?
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Changes in local labor laws
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What resulted from the investigation of the triangle shirtwaist fire?
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States cannot set rates on interstate commerce
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What was the goal of the interstate commerce act?
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Government involvement
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What did social Darwinism discourage?
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Railroad industry
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The great strike of 1877 took place in what industry?
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Win worker rights
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In the late 1800s, collective bargaining was a technique used to...?
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Railroad companies
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The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced to benefit...?
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The federal government
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The interstate commerce act gave the right to supervise railroads to...?
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-Poverty -Success of big businesses -power of billionaire industries
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Social Darwinism justified the existence of...?
