a group of companies managed by a single board of member (Rockefeller used this to create a monopoly of the oil industry) - Trust, 1876 invention by Alexander Graham Bell- device that transmitted speech - Telephone, invention by Samuel Morse- sent messages in Morse code over long distances - Telegraph, a policy in which a nation focuses on themselves and is not concerned with world affairs - Isolationism, discounts offered by railroads to their biggest customers in order to keep their business - Rebates, cash payments from a corporation's profits that could be earned by shareholders when a corporation does well - Dividend, a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically - Imperialism, workers' unions talking with management over wages and other matters - Collective Bargaining, one single producer taking control of an industry - Monopoly, American inventor who invented phonograph, motion picture projector, storage battery, lightbulb - Thomas Edison, combining two companies to form a single company - Merger, ended the Spanish-American War and US gained Cuba, Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico - 1898 Treaty of Paris, son of a Scottish immigrant who built a steel plant near Pittsburgh and dominated the steel industry - Andrew Carnegie, process of combining separate companies (large railroad companies often bought smaller companies) - Consolidation, company that developed the sleeping car on trains in 1867 so that passengers had seats that turned into beds for overnight journeys - Pullman Company,

8th Grade History Chapter 18

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