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large-scale or important financial or commercial activity
Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments, while passenger service, once a large and vital part of the nation's passenger transportation network, plays a limited role as compared to transportation patterns in many other countries.
A train route across the United States, finished in 1869.
A sector exchange-traded fund that invests only in companies that manufacture and market steel
an American oil industry business magnate and philanthropist.
an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company.
an American English term for a large business with significant market power.
characterized by a lack of competition, which can mean higher prices and inferior products.
an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.
a device that produces light from electricity.
an early sound-reproducing machine that used cylinders to record as well as reproduce sound.
a series of pictures projected on a screen in rapid succession with objects shown in successive positions slightly changed so as to produce the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move.
A Native American leader of the Sioux tribe in the late nineteenth century.
A creek in South Dakota where United States soldiers killed large numbers of Dakota Native Americans Sioux in 1890.
Island in the harbor of New York City, southwest of Manhattan.
a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association.
an English-born, American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law.
The resulting Angell Treaty permitted the United States to restrict, but not completely prohibit, Chinese immigration.

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