________ received boost in 1880s when machine- made cigarettes replaced hand- made cigarettes which ended up increasing tobacco consumption.
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Gasoline-burning combustion engine
Became primary means of automobile propulsion by 1900
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Thomas Edison
Invented many devices with the most well- known being the light bulb (1879)
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Carnegie
Used "vertical integration" to combine all the parts of manufacturing into one organization
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Buchanan Duke
Created the American Tobacco Company in 1890
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Industrialization
Was slowed by northern- dominated railroad companies charging lower rates on manufactured goods moving south from north compared to manufactured goods moving from south to north
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Alexander Graham Bell
Created the telephone in 1876
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Rockefeller
Created Standard Oil Company in 1870
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Plutocracy
Was when a government was controlled by the wealthy
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Vanderbilt
________ made a lot of money, improving the Eastern railroads.
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Congress
________ subsidized cost of many railroad construction projects due to high costs and risks associated with building railroads.
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Kerosene
Was the first major product of the oil industry
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own independence
Was an association of self- governing unions with each keeping its ________.
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Typewriter
________ and telephone switchboard gave women new economic and social opportunities.
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American Federation of Labor
Was founded in 1886
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J.P. Morgan
Financed reorganization of railroads, insurance companies, and banks
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Railroads
Stimulated the industrialization of the country in the years after the Civil War
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National Labor Union
Was organized in the late 1866 with it lasting 6 years and attracting 600,000 members
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Labor Day
Was created by Congress in 1894
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Steel
________ was "king "during industrialization era.
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Bessemer process
Simplified steel production process and reduced the price of steel
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Transcontinental railroad
Was finished in 1869 which allowed for trade with Asia to increase and opened up the West for expansion