1865-1900 Flashcards
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| 201949620 | Thomas Edison | Inventor of light bulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations | |
| 201949621 | John Rockefeller | Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history | |
| 201949622 | Monopoly | exclusive control or possession of something | |
| 201949623 | Laissez Faire | the doctrine that government should not interfere in economic affairs | |
| 201949624 | Deflation | a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices | |
| 201949625 | Operating Cost | the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance) | |
| 201949626 | Omaha | Start of Union Pacific Railroad | |
| 201949627 | Range Wars | Wars between Cattle Drivers and Homesteaders | |
| 201949628 | Homestead Act | 1862 - provided free land in the west as long as the person would settle there and make improvements in five years | |
| 201949629 | Little Big Horn | Site of Custer's Last Stand | |
| 201949630 | Andrew Carnegie | Built a steel mill empire; US STEEL | |
| 201949631 | Reconstruction | the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union |