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| Open Range | Vast agreas of grassland owned by the federal government |
| Long Drive | Driving cattle long distances to a railroad depot for fast transport and great profit |
| Chisholm Trail | A cattle drive trail that went from Texas to Kansas |
| Barbed Wire | An invention which enabled hundreds of square miles of prairie land to be fenced off cheaply and easily |
| Great Plains | an immense sweep of grassland with little moisture located in the middle of the North American continent |
| Homestead Act | For a $10 fee settlers could claim up to 160 acres of land in the Great Plains Region |
| Gross National Product | The total value of goods and services produced by a country during a year |
| Alexander Graham Bell | This man invented the telephone |
| Thomas Alva Edison | This man invented the electric light bulb |
| Time Zone | A geographical region in which the same standard time is kept |
| Corporation | An organization that is authorized by law to carry on an activity but treated as though it were a single person |
| Closed Shop | An agreement in which a company agrees to hire only union members |
| Lockout | A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work |
| Deflation | A decline in the volume of available money that results in lower prices, and therefore, increases the buying power of money |
| Trust | A combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement to reduce competition |
| Laissez Faire | Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy |
| Andrew Carnegie | 19th century steel tycoon who became one of the 20th century's most famous philanthropist |
| Bessemer Process | Industrial process for the manufacture of steel from molten pig iron |
| Monopoly | Total control of a type of industry by one person or one company |
