Name at least 2 demands labor unions had against big business
What is better hours, wages, safety in workplace, end child labor, benefits, etc.
100
complete domination over an industry. Contol prices, production etc.
What is a monopoly?
100
businesspeople who are especially successful and powerful. Contributes in a positive way to society.
What is a captain of industry?
100
this man dominated the steel industry
who is andrew carnegie?
100
term used in business meaning survival of the fittest will prosper
What is social darwinism?
200
Describe 1 negative condition for laborers during the industrial period
What is unsafe, unsanitary, death by machine long hours low wages.
200
this man dominated the oil industry in the 19th century
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
powerful businessman who used questionable/unethical practices to become wealthy.
What is a robber baron?
200
an arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled. led to mass production of goods
What is an assembly line?
200
no company would hire you because of your beliefs or actions towards unions
What is a blacklist?
300
Name at least 1 labor union during the 19th century
What is knights of labor, AFL, IWW
300
business tactic to increase profit by controlling all raw materials thru transportation systems. (ex: coal/iron fields railroad lines, factories)
What is vertical integration?
300
immigration station for the United States located in the New York bay from 1892-1924
What is ellis island?
300
multiple companies under a single board of stockholders. Companies entitled to dividends on profits earned.
What is a trust?
300
limited Japanese immigration in 1907.
What is What is the Gentlemen's agreement?
400
Most labor strikes were unsuccessful due to
What is violence, interfere with federal mail, gov't sided with big business often
400
business tactic where corporations merge. Buy out all competitors to have complete control over industry prices, production, wages.
What is horizontal integration?
400
limited Chinese immigration to the United States for 10 years in 1882
What is the Chinese exclusion act?
400
big business would make a laborer sign this promising not to join a union
What is a yellow dog contract?
400
Various cultures have met in the U.S to form a
new “American culture” by different contributions
What is the Melting-Pot theory?
500
union members represent workers & negotiate labor issues w/management
What is collective bargaining
500
when the government has no interference with regulating business "hands off"
What is Laissez-faire?
500
Belief that native-born Americans& their way of life was superior to immigrants (anti-immigration)
What is nativism? (Know-Nothing Party)
500
competing companies agree to fix prices & divide business.
What is a pool?
500
this man Created model T-car which was durable & affordable to most americans