Refers to the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
100
a contract between a worker and an employer in which the worker agrees not to remain in or join a union.
What are yellow-dog contracts?
200
A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
What is Laissez-Faire?
200
A Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
200
__ of the labor force during the early 1900's were immigrants.
What is 1/3?
200
A fight to establish 8hr work days, an end to child labor and higher pay
What is a Union of Workers?
200
an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control.
What is free- enterprise?
300
A political theory advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is Communism
300
Co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
If you were ___ cultures it was more hours of labor at even less money.
What is minority?
300
a strike that began on July 14 and ended 45 days later, after it was put down by local and state militias, and federal troops.
What is the Great Railroad strike of 1877?
300
they want government more involved with people's lives at a high cost.
What are Democrats?
400
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
an American tycoon, businessman, and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
400
Government polilcies concerning business practices benefited ______ not workers
What is industrialists?
400
written by Marx and Engels describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views
What is the communist manifesto?
400
Any government regulations will ___ individuals' prosperity and self-reliance
What is reduce?
500
an organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
What is a Union
500
An American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry.
Who is George Westinghouse?
500
Controlled __ ___ ____ Railroad, adding many smaller lines to it established Westinghouse Air Brake Co.
What is New York Central?
500
Industrial lockouts and strikes.
What is the Homestead and Pullman strikes?
500
a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.