6th grade Social Studies
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- Monopoly
- a company that controls an entire industry
- Corporation
- A large business that is owned by investors
- Shareholder
- investors who own a share of the company
- Labor union
- organization of workers / fight for better pay and working conditions
- Strike
- workers refuse to work until demands are met
- Thomas Edison
- Inventor of light bulb 1879, phonograph, thousands of inventions
- Alexander Graham bell
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teacher of the deaf
inventor of the telephone - Lewis Latimer
- inventor of the wire filament for light bulbs
- Elijah McCoy
- inventor of the oil cup called the "Real McCoy"
- Andrew Carnegie
- Built steel mills,very rich, helped others by building parks, universities,hospitals,libraries, concert halls, museums
- John D. Rockfeller
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Built Standard oil company
a monopoly - Mary Harris Jones
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Famous labor unnion leader against child labor
Mother Jones - Samual Gompers
- founded AFL (American Federation of Labor)
- Menlo Park
- research lab where Edison made inventions
- Pittsburgh
- Pennsylvania city known for its steel mills