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What linked goods and services through technology and transportation making commerce more affordable?

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National Market

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Process which made steel more affordable and profitable.

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Bessemer

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Who made their fortune refining oil; founded Standard Oil?

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John D. Rockefeller

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What are businessmen who are known for their positive contribution to the modern industrial economy called? Options: Robber Barons, Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Captains of Industry

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Captains of Industry

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This was designed to prevent companies from engaging in unfair practices that eliminated competition.

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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He was a Scottish immigrant who made his fortune in steel; known for the Gospel of Wealth.

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Andrew Carnegie

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What was completed at Promontory Point, Utah making it possible to travel by land across the country?

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Transcontinental Railroad

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The theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market.

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Laisez-Faire

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What union formed in 1898, hoped to create a single union of skilled and unskilled workers, demanded an 8 hour workday, safety codes, better pay and organized strikes to get companies to grant their demands?

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Knights of Labor

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This union limited membership to crafts and skilled workers creating a federation of unions.

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AFL (American Federation of Labor)