Railroads
Unions
Big Business
People
Potpourri
100
Created to aid in safe travel and timely schedules of trains.
What are time zones?
100
Workers are not allowed on property and not paid (i.e. NBA, NFL).
What is a lockout?
100
People who risk their own money in organizing and running a business.
Who are entrepreneurs?
100
Perfected the light bulb, created an electrical power system, and organized power plants.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Law stopping Chinese Immigration for 10 years, and denying citizenship.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
Railroad car mogul who built a town in Illinois to house his workers
Who is George Pullman?
200
Fought for an 8 hour work day.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
200
A company owns all the different businesses on which it depends for its operation.
What is a vertically-integrated trust?
200
Developed a cheap process for making steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
200
“Survival of the Fittest” was the motto of this philosophy.
What is the Social Darwinism?
300
Ran the American Railway Union and ran for president as a Socialist
Who is Eugene Debs?
300
Workers promised not to strike or join a Union.
What are Yellow Dog Contracts?
300
A New York City political machine controlled by Boss Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
300
Opened the way for worldwide communications with invention of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
Wealthy Americans should use their wealth to promote social progress.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
400
Federal troops needed to enforce the delivery of the US Mail.
What is the Pullman Strike?
400
People who ignored strike lines and replaced striking workers.
Who are scabs?
400
Combining many firms in the same type of business into one corporation.
What is a horizontally-integrated trust?
400
Settlement houses were founded by this group of people.
Who are Social Reformers?
400
The main goal of Social Gospel movement.
What is Social Reform?
500
Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific.
What are the four continental US time zones?
500
Incident involving union members and anarchists, which hurt Knights of Labor?
What is the Haymarket Riot?
500
US Steel, Vertical Integration, and Gospel of Wealth crusader.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
Organized coal miners and founded the Social Democratic Party?
Who is Mother Jones?
500
An extreme dislike of immigrants by native born people, and a desire to limit immigration.
What is Nativism?
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