Vocabulary
People
Oppostions/Strikes
Factors of Industrialization
Miscellaneous
100
A company tool to fight union demmands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work.
What is a lockout?
100
Who developed the phonograph?
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Which strike was between the Strikebreakers vs. the employees, that led to violence?
What was the Homestead Strike?
100
What were the natural resources that contributed to the rise of Industrialization?
Timber, coal, iron, copper, and oil.
100
Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nations economy.
What is laissez-faire?
200
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class or exports or imports.
What is a tariff?
200
Who invented the telephone?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
Which riot fought against the 8 hour work day in 1886?
What is the Haymarket Riot?
200
What were as important as natural resources in the American industry?
A large workforce
200
What led to the organization of unions?
Low wages, long hours, and difficult working conditions among workers.
300
A company whose primary business is owning a controlling share of stock in other companies
What is a Holding Company?
300
Who made the first successful powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carloina?
Who were Wilbur and Orville Wright?
300
Which strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occured in 1894?
What was the Pullman Strike?
300
What were the two causes of population growth that contributed to the large workforce?
A flood of immigrants and large families.
300
What act provided for the construction of a transcontinental railroad by two companies?
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
400
The combining of companies that supply equipment and sercives needed for a particular industry.
What is vertical intergration?
400
Who was known as "the most dangerous woman in America"?
Mary Harris Jones, aka "Mother Jones".
400
Which strike alarmed many Americans and pointed to the need for more peaceful means to settle labor disputes?
What was the Great Railroad Strike?
400
What idea promoted industrialization?
What was Laissez-faire?
400
DOUBLE JEOPRADY How did the expansion of railroads spur America's industrial growth?
The transcontinental railroad was the first of many lines that began cross crossing the nation after the civil war. By linking the nation, railroads increased the markets for many products, spurring American industrial growth. Railroads also stimulated the economy by spending huge amounts of money on steel, coal, timer, and other materials
500
The combining of many firms engaged in the same type of business into one corporation.
What is horizantal intergration?
500
Who was respnosible for the ideas of Marxism?
Who was Karl Marx?
500
Which strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World?
What was the Lawrence Strike?
500
Who accumulated money by investing in trade, fishing, and textile mills, facotries, and railroads?
Who were Entrepreneurs?
500
What type of list were workers that tried to organize a union or strike placed on?
A blacklist.
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