Big Business
who was a generous philanthropist, who slashed the wages of the workers who made him rich. He also helped build the formidable American steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
what is a ferocious fire that spread with lightning speed through a New York City garment shop, resulting in the deaths of 146 people and injuring many more.
what is the triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
when you are stuck doing a job solely for the money.
what is wage slavery?
what is the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature.
what is Social Darwinism?
what is a society where many different types of people blend together as one.
what is mealting pot?
who was the founder of the Standard Oil Company and became one of the world's wealthiest men and a major philanthropist.
who is John D. Rockefeller?
what is a bloody confrontation ensued between the workers and hired Pinkerton security guards, ultimately killing 16 people and causing many injuries.
what is the Homestead Strike?
what is the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents a variety of blue-collar workers, including freight drivers, warehouse workers, sanitation workers, and construction workers.
what is Labor Union?
what is based on government planning and limitations on private control of resources
what is Socialism?
the process of making steel from pig iron by burning out carbon and other impurities by means of a blast of air forced through the molten metal.
what is bessmer process?
who reorganizing there businesses to make them more profitable and stable and gaining control of them,and also financed industrial consolidations that formed General Electric, U.S. Steel, and International Harvester.
Who is JP Morgan?
what is a conflagration that burned in the American city of _____ during October 8–10, 1871.
what is Great Chicago Fire?
what is a factory or workshop especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.
what is a Sweatshop?
what is a labor organization that sought to organize workers along the lines of industrial unions rather than the specialized trade, or craft, unions of the American Federation of Labor.
what is Industrial Workers of the World?
what is giving gifts of “time, talent and treasure” to help make life better for other people.
what is philanthropy?
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
what spawned briefly and paralyzed the country's commerce and led governors in ten states to mobilize 60,000 militia members to reopen rail traffic.
What is Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
what is the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
what is urbanization?
what is a United States federal law signed by President Chester.
what is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
what is the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.
what is vertical integration?
what is a term used frequently in the 19th century during America's Gilded Age to describe successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical.
what is Robber Barons?
who is jane addams.
what was the violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers' rights.
what was Haymarket Affair?
what is a large, old building which is divided into a number of individual apartments.
what was tenement?
what was the first united states federal statude to limt cartels and monopolies.
what is sherman ani-trust act?