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| Iron Horse | building of the transcontinental railroad; congress donated over 155,504,994 acres of land that ran along with the tracks |
| Union Pacific Railroad | commissioned by congress to expand the railroad westward beginning around Omaha; attempted to bind the pacific cast with the rest of the republic |
| Hells on Wheels | the tented towns that the railroad workers formed as a place of relazation after workd; filled with ten thousand menand prostitutes and performers |
| Central Pacific Railroad | rail laying in the california end; pushe deastward from Sacramento over through the towering Sierra |
| Wedding of the rails | referring to where teh railroads joined one; Ogden, Utah in 1869 and became known as the transcontinental railroad |
| James J Hill | the great northern pacific was the creation of this far vision Canadian; greatest railroad builder of all; ran agricultural demonstration trains through the "hill country; prospering areas wold bring grater business to his company |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | offered superior railawy services at lower rates and made 100 million; united and expanded the eastern railraod- notably the New York Central |
| Alexander Graham Bell | introduced the telephone; teacher of the deaf |
| Thomas Alva Edison | known for the phonograph, mimeograph. dictaphone, moving picture, perfection of the light bulb |
| Andrew Carnegie | integrated every phase of his steel making process; pioneered the "vertical integration" |
| John D. Rockefeller | dominated the oil industry; organized the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, invented the "trust" |
| J pierpont Morgan | the "bankers banker"; came up with idea of interlocking directories |
| James Buchanan Duke | formed the American tobacco company in 1890 using latest technology learned how to mass produce tobacco |
| Henry W. Grady | Editor of the Atlanta Constitution; one of the first individuals in the south to get many of the southern leaders that they needed to be just as aggressive in fighting the north as they were in teh new industrial revolution |
| The Gibson Girl | a magazine image of the "new independent, athletic, woman" |
| Samuel Gompers | Established the American Federation of Labor in 1866; cigar maker; wanted to improve wages and working conditoins |
| American Federation of Labor | attempted to speak for all workers, but failed to represent them; sought higher wages and better working conditions |
| stock watering | railroad promoters used a variation of this technique and inflated their estimation about a given line's assets and profitability and sold stocks and bonds far in excess of the railroads actual value |
| pool | defensive alliances with other companies to protect profits; an agreement to divide the business in given area and shar the profits |
| trust | generally used to describe any large scale business combination |
