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| he total value of goods produced and services provided by a country during one year, equal to the gross domestic product plus the net income from foreign investments. |
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| American Oil driller known as Colonel Drake. First to drill oil in America. |
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| a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. |
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| a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. |
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| The creator of the first practical telephone |
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| A business man who created the |
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| he total value of goods produced and services provided by a country during one year, equal to the gross domestic product plus the net income from foreign investments. |
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| American Oil driller known as Colonel Drake. First to drill oil in America. |
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| a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. |
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| a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. |
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| The creator of the first practical telephone |
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| A business man who created the |
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| he total value of goods produced and services provided by a country during one year, equal to the gross domestic product plus the net income from foreign investments. |
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| American Oil driller known as Colonel Drake. First to drill oil in America. |
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| a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. |
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| The creator of the first practical telephone |
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| A business man who created the |
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| he total value of goods produced and services provided by a country during one year, equal to the gross domestic product plus the net income from foreign investments. |
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| An American protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861 during the Buchanan Administration and signed into law by President James Buchanan, a Democrat |
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| An area or stretch of land having a particular characteristic, purpose, or use, or subject to particular restrictions. |
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| Higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. |
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| Combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole |
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| When Congress promoted construction of the transcontinental railroad. |
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| A Union Army officer who help construction the transcontinental railroad |
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| American tycoon, industrialist, politician.The founder of Stanford University |
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| American industrialist and philanthropist that made money in shipping and railroads. Vanderbilt families are one of the richest in America. In his honor Vanderbilt name the school after him. |
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| The lead developer and speculator for the American railroads |
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| Officials of the Union Pacific Railroad created a fake construction company, called the Credit Mobilier, in order to cheat the government out of money allotted to the construction of the Union Pacific Railroads |
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| Chief executive officer of family head lines by Great Northern Railway . |
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| A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. |
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| the goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a business or warehouse and available for sale or distribution |
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| a proportionate saving in costs gained by an increased level of production. |
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| an arrangement, illegal in many countries, between competing parties to fix prices or rates and share business in order to eliminate competition. |
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| the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies. |
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| absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level |
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| the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. |
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| confidence placed in a person by making that person the nominal owner of property to be held or used for the benefit of one or more others. |
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| a company created to buy and possess the shares of other companies, which it then controls. |
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| Scottish-American industrialist that led a huge expansion of the American steel industry during the 19th century. |
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| Founder of Stanford Oil Company and the first great U.S. business trust. |
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| reduction of the general level of prices in an economy. |
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| an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. |
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| a union whose members all work in various capacities in a single industry. |
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| a list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval. |
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| the exclusion of employees by their employer from their place of work until certain terms are agreed to. |
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| the use of an arbitrator to settle a dispute. |
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| an authoritative warning or order. |
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| a place of work where membership in a union is a condition for being hired and for continued employment. |
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| a method of socio-economic inquiry based upon a materialist interpretation of historical development, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis of class-relations and conflict within society. |
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| largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955 |
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| Became a labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. |
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