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| A business that gains complete control of a certain product, service or industry |
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| A worker's organization that tries to obtain better pay and working conditions |
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| Continuous moving process where a belt moves past workers who have specific tasks |
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The process of manufacturing products
quicker, cheaper and in larger quantities |
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| Known for monopolizing the steel industry |
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| Known for monopolizing the oil industry |
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| Leaders of the NC tobacco industry |
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| R.J. Reynolds and James Duke |
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| Known inventing the light bulb |
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| Had these characteristics: low pay, long hours, unregulated, bad/unsafe working conditions, child labor |
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| Known for starting the assembly line idea |
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| Known for inventing the telephone |
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| POSITIVE effects of the Industrial Revolution on URBAN areas |
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| more jobs, better access to goods, better communication, better transportation |
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| POSITIVE effects of the Industrial Revolution on RURAL areas |
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| Fertilizers, greater crop production, better transportation of goods to markets,irrigation sysyems, better communication |
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| NEGATIVE effects of the Industrial Revolution on URBAN areas |
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| crowding, greater poverty, more crime, pollution |
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| NEGATIVE effects of the Industrial Revolution on RURAL areas |
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| Rising cost of railroad transportation, rising cost of tools and seed, falling prices received for crops,farmers go into debt |
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| Orville and Wilbur Wright |
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| A time of rapid social and economic change, a switch from agriculture to manufacturing |
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| The movement of people from rural areas to the cities |
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| A company that raises money by selling stock to many people |
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| A group of corporations that are run by a board of directors |
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