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16 Cards in this Set
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What the government should do according to the theory of social Darwinism
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stay out of the affairs of business
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John E. Rockefeller gained control over much of the oil industry by doing this
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Managing a trust made up of standard oil and allied companies
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How the business cycle might best be described
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Expansion followed by recession
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Samuel L. Gompers opposed letting women join the American Federation of Labor because he believed this
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Women in the wok force would drive wages down
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The ability to communicate with a moving train improved railroads by doing this
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Helping avoid collisions
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How John E. Rockefeller gained control of the oil industry
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Formed a trust
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Unlike the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor included these people in its membership
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Only skilled workers
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One of Thomas Edison's major accomplishments
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Helped to make electricty more widely available
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Andrew Carnegie argued that the success of wealthy industrialists do this
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Helped the entire nation
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During the late 1800's, children often worked in factories because of this
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Families needed the income to survive
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Something a person could doin 1900 but not in 1865
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Play a phonograph
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Why the industrialists during the age of big business were called "captains of industry"
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They increased the supply of goods and created many jobs
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Where many workers upset by the gulf between rich and poor turned
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Labor unions
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Due to the Pullman Strike, the government did this for the next 30 years
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Denied recognition to union
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Invented light bulb
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Thomas A. Edison
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Invented plastic and buttons
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John W. Hyatt
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