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- 1. a phase of rapid scientific discovery, standardization, mass production, and industrialization from the late 19th century into the early 20th century
- 4. was a national umbrella trade union organized in support of labor reform.
- 6. was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age.
- 8. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
- 12. a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy
- 16. economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership.
- 18. a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
- 21. an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
- 23. a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions they claim maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy,
- 27. created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19.
- 33. was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886
- 34. was an American business magnate and philanthropist.
- 35. was an American labor federation active in the late 19th century, especially the 1880s.
- 36. an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
- 39. a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection
- 41. an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a three-position traffic signal and a smoke hood
- 42. the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
- 43. the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open-hearth furnace
- 44. the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service
- 45. were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
- 46. a United States antitrust law that regulates competition among enterprises, which was passed by Congress under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.
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- 2. a Canadian-American engineer of African-American descent who invented lubrication systems for steam engines.
- 3. the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.
- 5. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car
- 7. was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression.
- 9. a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
- 10. a legal relationship in which the holder of a right gives it to another person or entity who must keep and use it solely for another's benefit
- 11. a work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labour dispute.
- 13. the goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a business or warehouse and available for sale or distribution
- 14. in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
- 15. an American entrepreneur and inventor. She was the second known African-American woman to receive a United States patent
- 17. an economic system in which production and prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses
- 19. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.
- 20. was an industrial lockout and strike at the Homestead steel mill in Pennsylvania.
- 22. was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil
- 24. a sudden attack, typically a military one
- 25. a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, each cable was a single wire.
- 26. a new idea, method, or device : novelty
- 28. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so
- 29. contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs
- 30. credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
- 31. a retailer that offers goods for sale through catalogs, which, along with the ordered merchandise, are delivered via the mail service.
- 32. was an African-American inventor and patent draftsman.
- 37. a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.
- 38. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording,and motion pictures
- 40. an inventor whose lasting machine brought significant change to the manufacturing of shoes.