Monday, May 18th

Review guide for the test on Friday, May 22nd:
Bessemer Process                                                                    Steel
Inventions of the time period                                                 Oil
Pullman                                                                                   Westinghouse
Vanderbilt                                                                               Carnegie
Rockefeller                                                                              Monopoly
Captain of industry (definition and methods used)               Capitalism
Robber baron (definition and methods used)                         Vertical integration
Free enterprise                                                                         Horizontal integration
Gilded Age                                                                             social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth                                                                    Unions (factors leading to)
Assembly line (how it worked, advantages and disadvantages)       
Sherman Anti-trust Act                                                          [...]

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