Chapter 19
VOCABULARY LIST OF TERMS
railroad barons
corporations
stock certificates
stockholders
board of directors
limited liability
partnerships
Bessemer converter
Mesabi range
smelt
division of labor
mass production
oil refining
Drakes folly
wildcatters
black gold
communications revolution
telegraph
telephone
phonograph
electric light
suspension bridges
skyscrapers
department stores
chain stores
entrepreneurs
fixed costs
overhead
rebates
pools
Standard Oil Company
trust
Interstate Commerce Act
regulatory agencies
antitrust movement
Sherman Antitrust act
free enterprise
specialization
Knights of Labor
strikes
Haymarket bombing
Federation of Labor
bread and butter issues
collective bargaining
Homestead strikes
lockout
yellow-dog contracts
blackshirts
Gilded Age
Statue of Liberty
ethnic neighborhoods
New Immigration
literacy test
Chinese Exclusion Act
settlement houses
Brooklyn Bridge
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