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Misc
100
Invented the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
One company controlling all aspects of an industry and forcing other companies out.
What is a monopoly?
100
A small cramped place to work with low wages, bad working conditions, and long hours.
What is a sweatshop?
100
People who take union members jobs while they are striking.
Who are scabs?
100
Made oil from the ground a viable source and lowered the cost of oil.
What is the oil drill?
200
Invented Morse Code
Who is Samuel Morse?
200
Businesses sell this, like owning a part of the company.
What is stock?
200
Getting paid by how much you make not how long you work.
What is piecework?
200
Strike breaking police.
Who are the Pinkertons?
200
A few firms who dominate a business. (Car industry)
What is an oligopoly?
300
Promoted economic growth by allowing for the movement of goods.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
300
Those who have the potential to be rich should be allowed to. Those who can't be rich are personally weak.
What is social darwinism?
300
Families needed money, they were able to fix machines, they were cheap.
What are reasons for child labor?
300
Radicals who believe in no government.
What is an anarchist?
300
Better working conditions, higher wages, fewer hours worked.
What are the goals of labor unions?
400
Worked on the railroad and was in charge of the explosives.
Who are the Chinese?
400
Owning all stages of production, shipping, and selling. (Carnegie)
What is vertical consolidation?
400
Able to get things done quickly and efficiently, lost pride in work, don't know the owners.
What are the pros and cons of the division of labor?
400
Leader of the American Railway Union.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
400
Railroads made these to standardize when trains would arrive and depart across the country.
What are time zones?
500
This purified steel easily and made it cheaper.
What is the Bessemer Process?
500
Controlling more aspects of an industry in order to be able to charge less. Production goes up and cost goes down.
What is economies of scale?
500
Wrote the Principles of Scientific Management to enhance productivity.
Who is Frederick Winslow Taylor?
500
Works because they gain power by working together and the employer has to negotiate.
What is collective bargaining?
500
Banned union meetings, sign yellow dog contracts, refused to use collective bargaining.
What are ways employers kept unions out?
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