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CHAPTER 14-15 US History

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immigrant who started one of Americas largest steel companies
Place in which modern workers worked instead of at home
Number of stores under the same management located in various cities
A home made of prairie turf
Money returned to big businesses by the railroads
Congressional act past to encourage settlement on the great plains
Inventor of the telephone
people who come to another country to live
Man who started the Standard Oil Company
This gave federal land to the states to finance colleges
Private companies freely competing with little or no government regulation
Theory used by big business justifying the killing of Competition
People who want to end or destroy all government
Corrupt city political organizations
The New York City political machine
man who started the first five-and-ten-cent store
Inventor of the electronic light
Cheaper faster way of making steal
provided a wide range of gods under one roof-one stop shopping
Minnesotan who built the great northern rail road
Pieces that are exactly alike and can be substituted for each other
inventor of the sleeping car on trains
Country from which Andrew Carnegie came as a young man
Organizations of workers formed to get higher pay and better working conditions
The man who establishes The Grange in 1867
This was supposed to Americanize Native Americans encouraging them to own property and farm reservation land
Expansion of a business by buying out the competing same kind of business
Expansion of a business by controlling all aspects of the business from raw materials, manufacturing, transportation and scale of product
One of the inventors of the refrigerated railroad car
First president of the American Federation of labor
Organization established from farmers to work for their interests
Several large businesses joined together to do away with competition
State in which oil was drilled near the town of Titusville
Situation in which one business without competition controls a service or product
Kind of union made up of workers in a single trade
Protest meeting in Chicago that erupted into violence; unfairly blamed on the Knight of Labor
The vast grasslands extending to the west-central portion of the US
Refusal to work by union members
The major cattle route from San Antonio through Oklahoma to Kansas
This colonel's bad judgment in attacking American Indians resulted in his death and all of his soldiers
Inventor of the typewriter
Person who first successfully used a steam engine to remove oil from the earth
Person who organized coal miners, their wives and children to fight for better working conditions
The idea that led to the rise of anti-immigration groups and demanded immigration restrictions
Place immigrants arrived on the west coast past through before gaining entrance to the US
Place immigrants arriving on the east coast pased through before gaining entrance to the US
Place where the first transcontinental railroad was joined
This law prohibited formation of businesses that interfered with free trade
Person who ran the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a socialist
Act that gave the federal government supervision of all railroad activities

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