The Gilded Age

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  1. 3. by several unions of skilled workers in 1886 marked the beginning of a continuous large-scale labour movement in the United States.
  2. 4. contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade
  3. 5. the process of making an area more urban.
  4. 7. was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the U.S. Midwest in June–July 1894.
  5. 8. any continuous rail line connecting a location on the U.S. Pacific coast with one or more of the railroads
  6. 9. an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor.
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  1. 1. n U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.
  2. 2. It established the principle of hiring federal employees on the basis of merit rather than political affiliation.
  3. 4. the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
  4. 6. was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.