Who's Who?
This leader in the steel industry wrote"The Gospel of Wealth," arguing that the rich have a duty to give their money away for the public good.
Andrew Carnegie
This labor union was considered radical because of its socialist ideology.
International Workers of the World (IWW) ("Wobblies")
This arrangement describes when companies handed control of their stock to a single board of trustees to eliminate competition. Rockefeller used these to take control over the oil industry.
Trust
By the 1880s, this animal, essential to Plains Indian life, had been hunted nearly to extinction.
Buffalo.
This term describes the rapid growth and development of cities
Urbanization
This man is responsible for inventing the incandescent light bulb.
Thomas Edison
Samuel Gompers organized this union made up of skilled workers. It became one of the largest labor unions in America.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
This type of company is one that is designed to go and buy the majority of stock of other companies within an industry in order to control that industry.
Holding Company
This treaty put the Lakota Sioux and the Arapaho in the Black Hills on a reservation. The Black Hills would then be taken from these tribes after the discovery of gold there.
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Custer's 7th Cavalry was wiped out at this 1876 battle in Montana.
Battle of Little Big Horn
This man was known as the most important man on Wall Street during the Gilded Age. He used financial influence to expand into several industries. Mr. Holmes went to college with one of his descendants.
J.P. Morgan
This term means that a labor union can organize and negotiate a contract for better working conditions, wages, hours, etc. with the company.
Collective bargaining
This is a way to create a monopoly in which a company buys out all of its competitors.
Horizontal Integration.
This 1890 event in South Dakota left roughly 250 Lakota dead and is often considered the end of the Indian Wars.
Wounded Knee
The AFL - American Federation of Labor - only allowed skilled workers to join their union. This is an example of what type of union.
Craft Union
This Native American leader of the Lakota Sioux tribe is famous for defeating Custer's army in 1876.
Sitting Bull
This event occurred in Chicago in 1886 when a bomb was thrown into a crowd of labor activists and police officers.
Haymarket Riot
This is a way to create a monopoly in which companies buy all the parts of the supply chain that are involved in making their product.
Vertical Integration.
This act encouraged Native Americans to leave the reservation and acquire a plot of land for themselves and their family. Its intent was to break up reservations.
Dawes Act
This term describes somebody that is adamantly opposed to immigration.
Nativist
This man was the founder of the American Railway Union and helped to found the International Workers of the World. He was a known socialist, ran for president for the Socialist Party, and was arrested twice.
Eugene V. Debs
Andrew Carnegie hired Pinkerton agents to break this 1892 strike, and the result was a deadly gunfight.
Homestead Strike
This economic policy states that the government should not involve itself in the affairs of business. There are very few, or no regulations. "Allow to do" in French.
Laissez-Faire
This act encouraged settlers to move westward on 160 acres of land per head of household.
Homestead Act
This theory states that the strongest and most successful will prosper and pass down their traits. It also states that if you are poor, then you were naturally inferior and had poor traits.
Social Darwinism