Chapter 14
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- Edwin L. Drake
- first person to use steam engine to drill fro oil
- John D. Rockefeller
- head of the standard oil company
- Munn v. Illinois
- court case that gave government right to regulate private industry
- Christopher Sholes
- inventor of the typewriter
- Eugene V. Debs
- leader of the american railway union
- Mary Harris Jones
- organizer for united marine workers
- Thomas Alva Edison
- inventor of the light bulb
- Alexander Graham Bell
- inventor of the telephone
- vertical integration
- process in which a company buys out its suppliers
- Social Darwinism
- theory that taught only the strong survived
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- law that outlawed trusts
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
- union of radicals and socialists nicknamed the wobblies
- Andrew Carnegie
- Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry
- horizontal integration
- process in which companies producing similar products merge
- transcontinental railroad
- a railroad that crosses the entire country
- American Federation of Labor (AFL)
- name of union led by Samuel Gompers
- Credit Moblier
- name of company involved in stealing of railroad money
- Samuel Gompers
- union leader
- George M. Pullman
- inventor of the sleeping car
- Bessemer Process
- technique used to make steel from iron
- Interstate Commerce Act
- law granting congress authority to regulate railroad activities