2nd Industrial Revolution
Big Business
Industrial Workers
Populism
Mixed Bag
100
Exclusive right to make or sell an invention
What is a patent?
100
system where private businesses run most industries
What is capitalism?
100
negotiating as group which improved chances of success
What is collective bargaining?
100
social and educational organization for farmers
What is the National Grange?
100
political organizations founded by farmers.
What is a Farmers' Alliance?
200
allowed several tons of iron to be come steel in only 10 or 20 minutes
What is the Bessemer process?
200
formed by selling shares of ownership
What is a corporation?
200
First truly national labor union
What is Knights of Labor?
200
paper money worth a specific amount of gold or silver
What is free coinage?
200
Their goal was to end influence of big business on government
What is the Populist Party?
300
inventor of the phonograph and electric light bulb
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
300
people who start a new business
What is an entrepreneur?
300
membership limited to skilled workers
What is the American Federation of Labor?
300
money is backed by gold only.
What is gold standard?
300
strike occurred after half workers were laid off and the rest had their pay cut.
What is Pullman Strike?
400
built improved power plant that could send electricity over long distances
Who is George Westinghouse?
400
owning all businesses in a certain field
What is horizontal integration?
400
strike supporting 8 hour workday in Chicago
What is the Haymarket Riot?
400
provided some consistent national regulation of trade among the states.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
400
made it a crime to monopolize trade or commerce
What is Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
proved it was possible to pump crude oil from the ground
Who is Edwin L. Drake?
500
owning businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process
What is vertical integration?
500
Steel workers strike in which locked out workers and 9 workers and 7 Pinkertons were killed
What is Homestead Strike?
500
Darwin theory on success
What is "survival of the fittest?"
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