Gilded Age Politics
These group of politicians such as NYC mayros were corrupt?
Who are the Tammany Men?
This was the first major, successful labor union in the United States.
What is Knights of Labor.
John D. Rockefeller became a billionaire after he started this company.
What is Standard Oil Co.
This federal law prohibited unfair practices by railroads such as charging higher rates for shorter routes.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act.
The most common, and effective, method used by labor unions.
What is Strikes.
Tammany Hall was an example of this type of political group.
What is Political Machines.
Samuel Gompers was the head of this major labor union.
What is American Federation of Labor.
Method used to own all means of production, from resource extraction to retail sale.
What is Vertical Integration.
This federal law was to stop monopolies engaging in unfair practies that prevented fair competition. .
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
What amendment is "Equal Protection under the Law."
What is the 14th amendment.
This act abolished the Native American Tribal unit and force them to assimilate (to be Americanized).
What is Dawes Act?
Method used by labor companies to negotiate contracts for their members.
What is Collective Bargaining.
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Name the process used by Carnegie to mass produce steel.
What is the Bessemer Process.
They forged the modern industrial economy.
What are Captains of Industry.
A person who donates his wealth to build libraries and universities. .
What is a Philanthropist.
This Supreme Court case ruled that Chinese children born in the United States were not to be denied citizenship.
What is US vs Wong Kin Ark (1898)?
Labor tactic in which an employer can only hire people who become members of the union.
What is Closed Shops.
This man monopolized shipping and railroad industry in the United States.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Name the inventor of whom forever changed how people communicated across great distances.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone.
What is a company having complete control over the supply of a product or service?
What is a monopoly.
Under this system government took a "hands off" policy, which allowed monopolies to flourish.
What is laissez-faire?
This strike blamed labor leaders when a bomb exploded during a demonstration at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
What is the Haymarket Affair.
Carneige in this famous book defended his reasoning for not paying his workers more while using his wealth to build libraries and universites.
What is the Gospel of Wealth.
This act restricted immigration of Chinese into America.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
DAILY DOUBLE: Name THREE technological innovations that made farming the west possible.
What is 1.) Steel Plow 2)Barbed Wire 3. Mechanical Reaper