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| real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. known as author during gilded age. wrote Tom Sawyer, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
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| leading American railroad developer and speculator. business practices were questionable but allowed him to become very rich |
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| Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist. "King of steel industry." |
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| was an American oil magnate. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry. |
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| American teacher, author and journalist. wrote magazine series and biographies. |
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| ounded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century |
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| scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone |
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| inventor, scientist, and businessman. developed phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb |
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| American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake |
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| American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation. merged his steel and electric companies to form United States Steel Corporation |
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| American academic and professor at Yale College. Introduced the term ethnocentrism |
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| African American journalist and newspaper editor that later was a large advocate in women's rights and suffrage movements. |
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| 22nd and 24th president (not consecutive) leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs, free silver, inflation, imperialism and subsidies to business, farmers or veterans |
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| 25th president. ignature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890 |
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| era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. term created by Mark Twain (coal covered in gold) |
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| Vertical & horizontal integration |
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Vertical- companies merging from different industries to create a common need.
Horizontal- different companies from same industry merging to create more advanced product |
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| oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. largest oil company in the world until broken up by U.S supreme court |
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| a relationship where a property is managed by one person for the benefit of another. |
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| Company that owns other company's stocks. Said company does not own land or produce goods, the only way it makes money is off of other company's stocks |
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| accumulation of money through investment in, currencies and financial products such as bonds, stocks, futures and other derivatives. |
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| steel company founded by John Pierpont Morgan. one of the largest, most profited steel companies in the world |
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| market or industry is dominated by a small number of sellers |
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| survival of the fittest in 20th century social and economic world. |
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| induced social evolution to help adapt society to social and economic changes that happen over time |
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| essay written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that described the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich |
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| environment in which transactions between private parties are free from state intervention, including restrictive regulations, taxes, tariffs and enforced monopolies. |
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| political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party |
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| term used to describe the south post civil war. South drifted from agricultural economy and became industrialized (factories, railroads, etc) |
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| National Women’s Suffrage Association |
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| National Association was created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association. believed women should be included in equal rights laws such as 15th ammendment |
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| Women’s Christian Temperance Union |
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| oldest continuing non-sectarian women's organization worldwide. started in Cleveland, Ohio 1874 |
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| fraternal organization for American farmers that encourages farm families to band together for their common economic and political well-being |
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| law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry. required that railroads publicize shipping rates and charge no more for short hauling than for long hauling. Railroads were also prevented from practicing price fixing and price discrimination. Regulatory agencies were created to see that these laws be followed |
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| requires the United States Federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies, and organizations suspected of violating interstate commerce act |
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| American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology |
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| English army vs Scottish army in yorkshire? |
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