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| Bessemer Process | was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts. |
| Robber Baron | derogatory term applied to wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen that appeared in North American periodical literature |
| Americanization Movemnet | is the process of an immigrant to the United States of America becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs and customs and is assimilated into American society |
| Captian of Industry | a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way. |
| Knights of Labor | The Knights promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected Socialism and radicalism, demanded the eight-hour day |
| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | , prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers |
| Monopoly | exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity |
| Philanthropy | in the sense of caring, nourishing, developing and enhancing "what it is to be human" on both the benefactors' |
| Free Enterprise System | large-scale application software packages that support business processes, information flows, reporting, and data analytics in complex organizations. |
| John D. Rockefeller | Co founder of Standard Oil Company and was a philantropist |
| Alexander Graham Bell | was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. |