Farmers' Problems
Farmers organized this group in the late 1800s to fight high railroad shipping costs.
What is the Grange?
This invention made textile production faster during the First Industrial Revolution.
What is the spinning jenny?
Workers formed these organizations to demand better wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
Political machines exchanged jobs and services for this from voters.
What are votes?
This ideology supports private property, individual profit, and competition between businesses.
What is capitalism?
This political party supported free silver and helped farmers fight debt.
What is the Populist Party?
This new power source became widely used in the Second Industrial Revolution.
What is electricity?
This violent labor protest happened in Chicago in 1886.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This powerful political organization operated in New York City.
What is Tammany Hall?
This ideology calls for workers to own the means of production and share profits equally.
What is socialism?
Farmers were hurt by this because it made crops worth less money.
What is overproduction?
This inventor created the practical light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This labor leader founded the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
This corrupt political leader ran Tammany Hall.
Who is Boss Tweed?
This more extreme form of socialism seeks to eliminate private property and create a classless society.
What is communism?
Farmers wanted the government to regulate these companies because of high shipping prices.
What are railroads?
This industry expanded quickly because of the Bessemer Process.
What is the steel industry?
This major strike against a railroad company caused federal troops to intervene.
What is the Pullman Strike?
Political machines sometimes used this illegal method to influence elections.
What is voter fraud?
This economic idea supports little government interference in business.
What is laissez-faire?
This economic condition caused falling prices, making debts harder to pay.
What is deflation?
This business strategy involved controlling every step of production.
What is vertical integration?
Workers used this method of refusing to work to pressure employers.
What is a strike?
This system rewarded supporters with government jobs.
What is patronage?
This theory, supported by thinkers like Karl Marx, predicted that workers would eventually overthrow business owners.
What is Marxism?