history
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Created by:
popjoe2 on December 12, 2011
Subjects:
history, funny, science, cool, neat, popjoe2, call of the wild, evan318, legos, mario, luigi, ike, marth, bowser, wario, link, friend, fast, cheez, comical, words, aqworlds, quizlet, google, yahoo, doctor worm, goku, gohan, frieza, cell, bill nye, scoobby doo, sonic, homestead strike, pullman strike, baseball, bat, jumping, jack, poor, barney, fly, guy, lunch, DBZ
Description:
a lot of history words that you need to know. :)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 robber baron | an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means. |
| legos |  (trademark) a child's plastic construction set for making mechanical models |
| philanthropist | someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being |
| homestead strike | Strike at Andrew Carnegie's steel plant in which Pinkerton detectives clashed with steel workers |
| gilded age | 1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor |
| rockefeller | United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937) |
| carnegie | United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919) |
| vanderbilt | United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877) |
| come | come to pass |
| oil | An organic fluid formed by the diagenesis of buried organic material that migrates into reservoirs in porous crustal rocks. |
| republican | having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government |
| hat | headdress that protects the head from bad weather |
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