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5137100857Adam SmithOne of the worlds most famous economists0
5137100858American Federation of LaborLabor unions in the US founded in Ohio by an alliance of craft Unions1
5137100859Andrew CarnegieUS industrial leader who made millions in the steel industry2
5137100860Edward BellamyAmerican author and socialist Most known for his novel "Looking Backward"3
5137100861Eugene V DebsHead of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman Strike4
5137100862Frederick Winslow TaylorAmerican mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency5
5137100863Gospel of WealthArticle written by Carnegie that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich6
5137100864Grotesque luxuryBuying and using products of the statement they make about social position7
5137100865Hay market bombingFew hundred anarchists that advocated a violent overthrow of the American government -dynamite bomb was thrown, injuring or killing dozens of people8
5137100866Henry Clay frickManager of the Carnegie Steel plant outside Pittsburgh PA9
5137100867Henry fordAmerican business man -helped to make inexpensive cars so that Americans could buy them10
5137100868Henry GeorgeAuthor of "Progress and Poverty"11
5137100869Holding companiesCompanies that hold a majority of another company's stock in order to control the management of that company12
5137100870Homestead strikeOne of the most violent strikes in US history -against the Homestead Steel Works in retaliation against wage cuts13
5137100871Horatio AlgerAmerican writer of inspirational adventure books Supported the belief that in America one could rise from rags to riches14
5137100872Horizontal integrationBuying businesses in a similar industry15
5137100873John D RockefellerAmerican industrialist & philanthropist Founder of the Standard Oil Company16
5137100874John Peter AltgeldIllinois governor who pardoned the probably innocent survivor of the Haymarket bombing17
5137100875J.P. MorganBanker who bought out the Carnegie Steel Company and renames it the US Steel18
5137100876Knights of LaborOne of the most important American labor organizations of the 19th century19
5137100877Limited liabilityLegal principal that facilitates capital investment by offering protection for individual investors20
5137100878Molly MaguiresSecret Irish organization of coal miners in region of western PA and West Virginia in the mid to late 1800s21
5137100879National LaborGroup who wanted 8 hour work days, banking reform, greenbackism, equal rights to all people and to end conviction labor -templet for later unions22
5137100880Pullman strikeAmerican Railway Union Wages were cut- striker flipped Pullman cars and paralyzed railway traffic from Chicago to the Pacific COast23
5137100881Samuel GompersAmerican labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history24
5137100882Scientific managementSystem of industrial management created and promoted in the early 1900s by Frederick W Taylor25
5137100883Social DarwinismEncouraged the notion of human competition and opposed intervention in the natural human order26
5137100884TrustsFirms or corporations that combine for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling pieces27
5137100885Vertical integrationOwning all aspects of production28
5137100886Wilbur and Orville WrightDeveloped the first airplane with fixed wings and a gas engine29
5137100887Women's trade union leagueUS organization of both working class and more well-off women to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions30

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