what was the name of the union that included skilled and unskilled workers?
industrial unions
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| what was the name of the union that included skilled and unskilled workers? | industrial unions |
| who was the largest oil industrialist of the era | John D Rockefeller |
| Why was the 1896 court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, so important? | validated the South's segregationist social order. |
| What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal? | investors of credit mobilier overcharged Union Pacific (nearly bankrupt) and received millions of dollars |
| what was vertical integration and who pioneered it | Company owns all of the different businesses on which it depends for operation, Andrew Carnegie |
| where old and new immigrants came from | old- northern and western europe, germany new- eastern and southern, russian, polish, italian |
| what was the importance of the Pendleton Act | created to eliminate spoils and patronage, certain federal jobs would be based on competitive exams |
| What were the Jim Crow Laws | Southern state laws that enforced segregation (separation of the races). |
| Name of the political club that controlled NYC democratic Party | Tammany Hall |
| What was the Chinese Exclusion Act? | barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens |
| What was horizontal integration and who pioneered it? | Combining firms in the same business into one large corporation, John D. Rockefeller |
| what is a monopoly? | When a single company achieves control of an entire market, it becomes a |
| What was the Interstate Commerce Act? | affirmed federal governments right to regulate RR activities, was a response to farmers complaints about unfair pricing |
| What did W.E.B. DuBoise advocate? | Proposed African Americans concentrate on achieving economic goals rather than political |
| What did the Sherman-Antitrust Act state? | made illegal all attempts to monopolize any part of trade or commerce in the U.S. |
| what were trusts? | attempted to get around laws against monopolies, able to manipulate prices and quantity without regard to laws of supply and demand. |
| What did Robber Barrons do? | employed children, women, and immigrants for low wages, resisted unions |
| What was the idea of laissez-faire? | let them be/hands off |
| what business did Carnegie operate | Revolutionized steel production, Built the Carnegie Steel Co. |
| What business did Rockefeller operate? | largest oil refiner, industrialist of horizontal integration |
| what business did Vanderbilt operate? | Biltmore House and Gardens |
| what business did Morgan operate? | Banking & Finance, Purchased Carnegie Steel and created U.S. Steel Corporation |
| what did Booker T. Washington advocate? | Believed African Americans needed to focus on equal treatment and voting rights |
| how did the Haymarket riot affect the knights of labor | undermined its reputation |
| what was the importance of President Garfield's assassination | highlighted the need to reform the political system |
| what did Samuel Gompers found | American Federation of Labor |
| what was the idea of Social Darwinism in American society? | An idea used by industrialists of the late 1800s to discourage government interference in business. |
| what were the three tactics southern states used to take away the african american vote | literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses |
| what was the pacific railway act | provided for the construction of a transcontinental railroad by two corporations |
| what was the idea behind marxism | workers would revolt and seize factories & overthrow the gov, new gov. would seize all private property & create society where wealth was evenly divided |
| reasons for US industrial success | abundance of raw materials, settlement of the west, its natural resources accelerated industrialization |