Chapter 17, 18, & 19 People
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cornelius vanderbilt | financer, shipping business |
| jay gould | financer, control of erie canal, caused financial panic when attempt to corner gold market |
| j. pierpont morgan | first billion dollar corporation |
| william vanderbilt | inherited railroad empire and doubled it |
| andrew carnegie | endowed education, public libraries, research trusts |
| john d. rockefeller | standard oil company |
| adam smith | wealth of nation, lassiez faire |
| herbert spencer | applied theory of natural selection to people |
| russel conwell | acres of diamonds |
| samuel f. b. morse | telegraph |
| alexander graham bell | telephone |
| thomas a. edison | lightbult, phonograph, and others |
| george westinghouse | inventor and manufacturer |
| horatio alger | author of adventure stories |
| david ricardo | argues that laws of supple and demand should operate in a free market; iron law of wages |
| terrence powderly | leader of knights labor |
| samuel gompers | american federation of labor |
| frederick law olmstead | designed first suburb |
| henry george | progress and poverty |
| edward bellamy | looking backward |
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