Which organization was one of the early labor unions, which stood for temperance, the eight-hour day, equal pay for equal work, and an end to child labor?
100
Entrepreneurs
What are risk-taking businessmen?
100
African Americans
Which group left the rural South to go north for jobs in industry, since southern factories barred them from jobs, save in cigar making.
100
Organizers raise money by selling shares of stock in the company. Shareholders receive a percentage of the company's profits, known as dividends. The company is maintained by a professional staff, not the shareholders.
What is a corporation?
200
Wanamakers, Macy's, and Marshall Field
What is a department store?
200
American Federation of Labor
Which labor organization was founded by Samuel Gompers for skilled workers, following labor violence?
200
Laissez-faire
What is the idea that government intervention in the marketplace is negative, and that government should maintain a "hands-off" attitude towards business and regulation.
200
women
Which group numbered 5 million workers by 1900?
200
Large amounts of money can be raised through the sale of stock
Limited liability
Stability.
Stock sales can provide another avenue for wealth.
What are the advantages of a corporation?
300
Great Upheaval
What is the series of labor strikes and violent labor confrontations in 1886?
300
Pinkertons
What organization sent a private army to fight strikers at the Homestead Steel plant?
300
Social Darwinists
Who are people who believe that society is based on natural selection and evolution. Through competition, the fittest would survive, and the weak would fail. Any effort to help the poor slowed social progress.
300
children
Which group included 20% of its numbers in the workforce by 1890. They worked 12 hour shifts, often at night, for pennies a day.
300
A company that has almost complete control over the price and quality of a product.
What is a monopoly?
400
Haymarket Square
What is the site of a riot in support of a strike against McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Police officers and civilians died after a bomb was thrown.
400
American Railway Union
Which labor organization struck against the Pullman Company, was put down by federal troops, and ended as a result of this strike?
400
trust
What is a group of companies that is controlled by a single group of business leaders?
400
Company towns
What were towns where employers owned the workers' housing and the company store, thereby increasing their control?
400
Author of the "Gospel of Wealth," in which he said that it was his duty to give his money to charity. In the end, he gave $350 million to good causes.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
500
Homestead
What is the site of a strike against Carnegie Steel?
500
Anarchists
Which group that did not believe in government supported the strike against McCormick Harvesting Machines in Haymarket Square, a strike that turned violent?
500
Vertical integration
What is a corporation that controls iron and coal mines, steel refineries, automobile manufacturing and automobile dealerships?
500
Knights of Labor platform components
What were temperance, the eight hour workday, equal pay for equal work, and an end to child labor?
500
He made a small fortune in wholesale foods, then turned to a new venture in which he developed transportation innovations like the tanker car and the pipeline.