Key Terms
Key People
Big Business
Working Conditions
Labor Unions
Immigration
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total ownership of a product or service
Monopoly
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Leader of the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
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Why didn't Americans like monoplies?
Monoplies got rid of competition and raised prices on goods
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Who mainly worked in factories?
Women, children and immigrants
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What is a labor strike?
Workers stop working until the conditions are met
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Give two examples of push factors.
Violence, War, Poverty, Famine, Lack of jobs and opportunities
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Business leaders who built their fortunes by using sketchy practices
Robber Barons
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Steel industrialist who later donated hundreds of millions of dollars to help out communities.
Andrew Carnegie
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This act was created to make monopolies illegal and allow for competition.
Sherman Antitrust Act
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What were the conditions in the factories?
Long hours, low pay and dangerous working environment
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Which labor strike caused the decline of the Knights of Labor but led to the formation of the AFL?
Haymarket Affair
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What are the two locations that immigrants entered the US from?
Ellis Island and Angel Island
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Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees
Collective bargaining
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Creator of the telephone and changed how people communicated with each other.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Ownership of businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process and a tatic used by Carneige
Vertical Integration
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Why did factories choose the hire immigrants over American citizens?
Immigrants who would work for less pay than American citizens.
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During the strikes that happened in the Industrial Age, which side was the government on: Workers or Businesses?
Businesses
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What is nativism?
Belief that the interests of native citizens should come before the interests of outsiders
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Business leaders served their nation in a positive way
Captain of Industry
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Created the Standard Oil Trust and produced the majority of the oil used in the US and in other parts of the world.
John D. Rockefeller
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What is the main idea of this cartoon?
The governemnt was controlled by business leaders and ignored the concerns of the American citizens.
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Which event caused factories to follow safety regulations, create a safer workplace, and led to the creation of unions in the United States?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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Name one difference between the AFL and the Knights of Labor.
Knights of Labor- Both skilled and unskilled workers
AFL- Skilled workers, organized labor union for individual groups
AFL used strikes to get what it wanted but the Knights tried boycotts and negotiations
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What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
Banned new immigrants coming to the United States from China
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Policy where the government has little to no interference with business practices
Laissez-Faire
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Leader of the Knights of Labor
Terence V. Powderly
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What is horizontal integration?
Owning all businesses in a certain field
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What is the name of the book and author that exposed the meatpacking industry?
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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What is the main purpose of labor unions in the United States?
Labor unions gave the workers a voice to get their demands met like improving working conditions or better pay for workers.
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Why is this a pro-immigration cartoon?
Cartoon displays how it is unfair that Chinese immigrants are banned from the United States while other groups who bring issues to the US are allowed.