Edwin Drake
laissez-faire
entrepreneurs
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Pacific Railway Act
Grenville Dodge
Cornelius Vanderbilt
A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York. He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical.
time zones
Jay Gould
Credit Mobilier
James J. Hill
stockholders
stock
A certificate of ownership in a corporation
economies of scale
Fixed costs
pools
Andrew Carnegie
Bessemer process
monopoly
trust
deflation
lockout
Marxism
arbitration
American Federation of Labor