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- 1. Thomas Alva Edison Perhaps the most famous inventor of the late 1800s image
- 2. Horizontal Integration Combining many firms engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation Horizontal integration took place frequently as companies competed image
- 3. Monopoly When a single company achieves control of an entire market Opponents feared monopolies. image
- 4. Ghost Dance A ritual that celebrated a hoped-for day of reckoning. image
- 5. Gross National Product The total value of goods and services produced by a country during a year. Everything a country has earned in a year. image
- 6. Pacific Railway Act Began in 1862 Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies Signed by Abraham Lincoln image
- 7. corporation a legal personality , usually used to conduct business Corporations exist as a product of corporate law , image
- 8. Entrepreneurs one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise image
- 9. Andrew Carnagie United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts 1835-1919. Andrew was a Scottish-born American industrialist, business man, and a major philanthropist. He was an immigrant as a child with his parents. image
- 10. In 1851 the government assigned Indians to reservations, where they could not leave. The Indian peace Commission stated that all plains Indians should be moved to 2 reservations, one in Oklahoma and the other in the Dakotas. The policy included a reorganization of the Native American Service, with the goal of relocating various tribes from their ancestral homes to parcels of lands established specifically for their inhabitation. Indian Peace Commissioner image