Capital and Labor
Who Said, What Said:
Technology
Date It:
Bryan, Gold, and The Almighty Oz
It's a Party:
Captains and Barons
100
He was not fond of his theory of biological evolution being applied to society to explain why people deserved to be rich or poor.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
Tesla's main competitor thought this charge moving in one constant direction was the wave of the future for the electric industry.
What is Direct Current?
100
"Emerald City" is a stand in this real city. A place where people go and petition for representation or to represent:
What is Washington D.C.?
100
Even though the Peoples' party attracted supporters across the nation by appealing to those convinced that there were deep flaws in the political and economic structures of Gilded Age America. This party remained solidly in control across the south because poor white farmers refused to collaborate with black farmers.
What is the Democratic Party?
100
He owed his success and fortune in business to the inventive genius of Henry Bessemer, which he gave most of away at the end of his life, claiming a man who dies rich dies disgraced.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
When one person or company buys out and absorbs competition in one particular sector of an industry to create a monopoly. Primary example- John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.
What is Horizontal Integration?
200
Under its sway we shall have an ideal State, in which the surplus wealth of the few will become, in the best sense, the property of the many, because administered for the common good; and this wealth, passing through the hands of the few, can be made a much more potent force for the elevation of our race than if distributed in small sums to the people themselves
Who is Andrew Carnegie/ Gospel of Wealth?
200
Industrialists who sought to increase efficiency and reduce costs embraced his scientific management approach to production
Who is Taylor/ Frederick Winslow Taylor?
200
First major labor unrest of the Gilded Age period. "The Great Upheaval" was response to railroad worker's wage cuts. Before it was over, strikes ripped through St. Louis, Missouri. Pittsburgh, Pa. Chicago, Ill. West Virgina, Ohio, and Maryland. Ended when Federal troops were called in after 100 people were killed and millions of dollars of property was destroyed.
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
200
The city of Oz is derived from ounce, which is a measurement of this item:
What is Gold?
200
Former railroad fireman turned labor leader. Radicalized by the government's violent response to striking railroad workers of the Pullman Palace Car Company. Became a Socialist, running for president 5 times.
Who is Eugene V Debs.
200
Seen here is his infamous "Dagger Portrait," this American Financier gained great power and wealth. His dedication for efficiency, accountability, and modernization transformed the American economy and corporate business practices.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
300
Economic theory devised by Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith. It was best suited for the founding fathers in the age of agriculture, however during the industrial era it contributed to growing inequality, pollution, corruption, and worker exploitation.
What is Laissez-faire/ Hand's off economics?
300
This association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times. It is the central fact from which spring industrial, social, and political difficulties that perplex the world, and with which statesmanship and philanthropy and education grapple in vain. From it come the clouds that overhang the future of the most progressive and self-reliant nations. It is the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts to our civilization, and which not to answer is to be destroyed.
Who is Henry George/ Progress and Poverty?
300
Before the introduction of the telephone, this was the main mode of long-distance communication.
What is the telegraph?
300
This was a major economic depression caused by overspeculation of the railroad industry. It caused bank and business failures. George Pullman cut his workers wages without lowering their rent. It strengthened Populist demands for silver.
What is the Panic of 1893?
300
Dorothy's slippers in the book were made of this. "There is no place like home" was a stand-in for Populists' hopes that inflation would lower their depts and make it easier to pay the mortgages on their homes.
What is Silver?
300
The party associated with the slogan "Free and unlimited coinage of silver!"
What is the People's Party/ The populists?
300
Social Darwinist belief held by many successful businessmen of the day. Success was a mark of one's hard work and talents. State welfare or government regulation on business was viewed as harmful to progress.
What is Survival of the Fittest?
400
Republican party dominance of national government aided in shielding homegrown corporations from foreign competition by repeatedly voting for this trade measure. Increasing its rate multiple times- burdening the consumers with higher prices and insulating monopolies from competition
What is a protective Tariff/ Tariff?
400
Mystery document: "My party's in power in the city, and it's going to undertake a lot of public improvements. Well, I'm tipped off, say, that they're going to lay out a new park at a certain place and buy up all the land I can in the neighborhood. Then the board of this or that makes its plan public, and there is a rush to get my land, which nobody cared particular for before. Ain't it perfectly honest to charge a good price and make a profit on my investment and foresight. Of course it is. That's honest graft."
Who is George Plunkitt/ George Washington Plunkitt?
400
With Kerosene no longer needed in large demand, Rockefeller's Standard oil was revived by the internal combustion engine's appetite for this explosive substance
What is gasoline?
400
From Jun 30, 1892 to Jul 6, 1892, Workers at this Carnegie Steel plant occupied the property- fighting off non-union workers and the pinkertons. Only ending when 4,000 armed national guardsmen swarmed the city.
What is the Homestead Strike
400
Dorothy and her companions are a stand in for this real-life event where real people took to the road to see "the wizard" and ask for government created public works projects to put them back to work and make them whole.
What is Coxey's Army?
400
That capitalism, the private ownership of the means of production, is responsible for the insecurity of subsistence, the poverty, misery, and degradation of the ever-growing majority of our people.
What is the Social Democratic Party Platform?
400
At the height of his power, his Standard Oil controlled 90-95% of he oil in the U.S. It was said his unofficial motto was "Let us PREY"
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
This union was established by Samuel Gompers in 1886. It only allowed skilled workers in and sought only what unions always seek: better wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions
What is the AFL/ American Federation of Labor?
500
You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. I tell you that the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in this country.
Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them: you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold
Who is William Jennings Bryan/ Cross of Gold Speech
500
Thomas Edison once utilized this immigrant's technical and engineering skills, who know a row about payment would make him his greatest competitor
Who is Nikola Tesla?
500
This protest against police brutality in 1886, turned into a violent bombing that marked the end for the Knights of Labor; unfairly associating the labor group with radical politics.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
500
Where monetary policy is not only determined by the amount of Gold the government holds, but also by the amount of Silver in its stock. This was a major policy proposal put forward by the Populists and William Jennings Bryan.
What is bimetallism?
500
This party dominated gilded age politics- of the 8 presidential terms, 6 were from this party, with the exception of Grover Cleveland whom held the office during two non-consecutive terms- it is the party of business and protective tariffs
What is the Republican Party?
500
This group was used repeatedly by corporations, Captains, and Robber Barons alike against competitors and pesky unions. Their tools of the trade included- sabotage, intimidation, and sometimes violence on behalf of their clients.
What is the Pinkerton Detective Agency?
600
Exactly what Carnegie did to dominate the steel industry- he bought out and controlled every step of the production process. From the mines that contained the ore and coal, to the factories that made the product, and the railroads and ships that hauled his product.
What is Vertical Integration
600
coined the phrase "Gilded Age," the period was "glittering on the surface, but corrupt underneath". He believed that the wealth created during this time was often ill-gotten and made through corrupt means, such as government corruption and unethical business practices.
Who is Mark Twain?
600
His Company was transformed into the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which still exists today as AT&T.; By 1880, fifty thousand telephones were in use in the United States, including one at theWhite House. By 1900, that number had increased to 1.35 million.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
600
During McKinley's presidency, the Republicans reinforced their support for Gold as the only commodity to back up the money supply with the Gold Standard Act during this year
What is 1900?
600
Person who defeated Bryan during the election of 1896, becoming the 25th president of the United States. Helped model the powerless wizard of Oz.
Who is President William Mckinley.
600
The constitutional crisis caused by the election of 1876 ended with the Compromise of 1877. In it, the Republicans got Rutherford B. Hayes the white house, in return the Democrats (the south) received this promise...
What is the end of reconstruction/ end of federal occupation?
600
He created U.S. Steel Corporation in 1901, merging Carnegie Steel and two other competitors. Making it the world's first Billion-dollar Corporation.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
700
Led by Terence Powderly, this union came out of the shadows in 1881. It welcomed all workers- black, white, male, and female. Their main goal was to achieve better working conditions and an 8-hour workday. A string of strike failures and a bombing marked the end of this group.
What is the Knights of Labor?
700
We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder....... We charge that the controlling influences dominating both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any substantial reform.
What is the Populist Party Platform/ Omaha Platform of 1892?
700
Although an appalled George Westinghouse refused to sell any of his generators for this purpose, Edison ad men made sure the first ever one of these included an alternating current motor. Edison even coined the term ‘Westinghoused’ to describe someone who was strapped to it.
What is the Electric Chair?
700
Known as the "White City," a World's Fair in This city in 1893 marked the end of the war of currents, solidifying A.C. currents dominance in the electrical industry
What is Chicago?
700
William Jennings Bryan, "the boy wonder of the platte," "The Great Commoner" received fame and the nomination for the Democratic Presidential candidacy in 1896 with his speech
What is "The Cross of Gold" Speech?
700
Mary E. Lease, was a well-known speaker for this group. She declared "Wall Street owns the country!... It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street."
Who are the Populists/ The People's Party?
700
J.P. Morgan convinced him to give up his "war of the currents" and to restructure his company as General Electric in 1892. It would become a major engineering conglomerate in- aerospace, power electrification, and medical equipment.
Who is Thomas Edison?