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