Political Cartoons
Big Business
Workers
American Economy
Misc.
100
Standard Oil was owned by this Industrial Revolution tycoon.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
100
Buying and owning of every level of business from production to distribution.
What is vertical integration?
100
Wage increases and greater job security was one goal of forming these.
What are Labor Unions?
100
The term used to describe the type of economic system we live within that helps everyone be able to achieve the "American Dream"
What is Captialism?
100
Andrew Carnegie is an example of this term because he gave away a large majority of his wealth to build libraries, schools, and concert halls.
What is a philanthropist?
200
The American Federation of Labor organized unions to empower what group of people represented by this cartoon.
What are labors/ skilled workers?
200
Buying competing companies and taking them over completely or having them join in a "trust" with a much larger corporation.
What is horizontal integration?
200
A stoppage of work in protest.
What is a strike?
200
The term used for the decline from a Boom Economy to a Bust Economy.
What is a recession?
200
Henry Ford used this production technique when building mass quantities of the Model T, this technique is still used today in many factories and sped up the production of the final good..
What is the assembly line?
300
Rockfeller's efforts to exploit his business competitors is represented in this political cartoon, its also represents this "hands off" approach to government interference.
What is lassiez faire?
300
Response from this group to strikes and protests resulted in the hiring of private detectives to defend their property and "scabs" to work in the strikers place.
Who are the major company/ management?
300
Dim lighting, no protective gear, long hours, working 6 or 7 days a week are examples of..
What are poor working conditions?
300
The term used for a bust economy when it's "flat lined" after a recession.
What is a Depression?
300
The invention of this made it possible for managers to work their employees way past sunset, creating much longer work days.
What was the light bulb?
400
The interpretation of this cartoon suggests.......
What are monopolies are still around today?
400
"Survival of this fittest" refers to to this idea in which the largest and strongest companies should survive.
What is "Social Darwinism"?
400
The Homestead Strike and The Great Strike of 1877 were the workers response to management doing this.
What were wage cuts?
400
The term used for the climb from a Bust Economy to a Boom Economy.
What is expansion?
400
The discovery of this fueled the industrial revolution in the U.S. and led the country to becoming a world power.
What is oil?
500
This political cartoon represents a economic idea in which one business controls a vast majority or all of the market for a specific good or service.
What is a monopoly?
500
President Hayes reaction to the B&O Railroad Company strike, aka the Great Strike of 1877, which showed that the government during this time supported big businesses and not the rights of laborers.
What was sending in the National Guard to force the workers back to work?
500
A group of workers who work the same type of job or use the same skill sets form this type of union.
What are craft unions?
500
The term used for an economic and political system that features government control of business & property & an equal distribution of wealth, many workers and laborers leaned towards this economic model in the late 1890's and early 1900's as a response to big business and poor working conditions.
What is Socialism?
500
Meeting the demands of small farmers and business owners in the West, the government imposed regulations on these two business that controlled much of the money and transportation of goods on the Western frontier.
What are railroad companies and banks?
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