Unions
People
Impact
of
The Industrial Age
Monopolies
and
The Gospel of Wealth
100
Several hundred thousand organized workers such as craftsmen, bricklayers, typesetters, and shoemakers.
What were Unions?
100
A German-born Democrat who was elected Governor of Illinois in 1892.
Who was John P. Altgeld?
100
This industry declined by cause of manufacturing.
What is agriculture?
100
He spoke of a Gospel of Wealth saying the rich had a moral duty to spread the wealth (like spreading the Gospel).
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
200
An 1866 union that lasted for 6 years and attracted roughly 600,000 members.
What was the National Labor Union?
200
He was the leader of the AF of L.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
200
This gender was most effected by the industrial age.
What are women?
200
The concept of "survival of the fittest" applied to bussiness and class.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
A famous secret society and union that sought drastic labor reform and safety and health code reform.
Who were the Knights of Labor?
300
The President under whom more new trusts, monopolies, were formed in the period.
Who was President McKinley?
300
The shift from agriculture to manufacturing brought on the shift from farmers and producers to _______.
What were wage earners.
300
This -ocracy replaced the slaveocracy of the antebellum days and stuck close to the Constitution.
What is Plutocracy?
400
This is the reason workers began to go on strike.
What are wages?
400
He was he editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
Who was Henry W. Grady
400
The opening line in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
Who is John Galt?
400
This company sold 95% of all oil sold in the USA at one time.
What is the Standard Oil Company of Ohio?
500
The middle-class public grow tired of these knowing that American wages were of the highest in the world.
What are strikes?
500
He was the leader of the Knights of Labor, and was mayor of Scranton, Pennsylviania in the 1870's
Who was Terence V. Powderly?
500
Another term for "horizontal integration".
What is a monopoly?
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