Industrialization & Labor
This period from 1750-1850 saw a massive shift in how goods were made and how people lived
Name 1 Reason why there was tension between white laborers and black laborers
Will accept:
1. Black laborers hired as a replacement of strikers
2. Black laborers took lower wages
3. Black laborers were recruited at jobs
4. Black wealth was a threat to white supremacist beliefs
These journalists at the turn of the 20th Century exposed corruption and wrongdoing, using exaggerative language
Answer: Who were Muckrakers?
These lists of workers who participated in strikes were shared among companies to prevent future hiring.
Blacklists?
This era, from 1870-1900, was marked by economic expansion, material excess, and political corruption.
What is the Gided Age?
Replacement workers brought in to undermine a strike are called these.
This mass movement of Black Americans from the South to the North was driven by job opportunities.
Answer: What was the Great Migration?
What happened to the Owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory after the trial?
They were acquitted of all charges and actually made money off of insurance!
These contracts forced workers to agree not to join unions as a condition of employment.
Answer: What are Yellow Dog Contracts?
A company that has complete control of a particular industry is called this.
What is a Monopoly?
This term refers to land, raw goods, and natural resources used in production.
This 1921 event destroyed the Greenwood District, the wealthiest Black Neighborhood in America at the time.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre
This journalist exposed the problems with with New York City Tenement Housing
This employer tactic involved shutting down factory operations to pressure workers into submission.
Answer: What are Lockouts?
This Gilded Age tycoon was known for his steel empire.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This 1892 strike in Pennsylvania highlighted the unionizing conflicts between skilled and unskilled labor and management in the steel industry.
What was the Homestead Strike?
What happened to Black and White southern tenant farmer's during the great depression?
They were evicted from their homes
This Muckraker exposed the corruption of Standard Oil
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Name 1 way Amazon practiced Union Busting.
Will accept: firing Union organizers, call trespassing on union employees bringing meals to each other, or post threatening signs around the office
Agreements between businesses to share profits and control costs, reducing competition, were called these.
What are trusts?
What is the difference between Socialism vs. Capitalism?
Capitalism = owners own means of production
socialism = workers own means of production
This Black leader who actively encouraged black people to avoid unions.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
This legislation was passed due to the work of Upton Sinclair.
This individual, hired by Carnegie at Homestead, was known as a "union-buster."
Answer: Who was Henry Clay Frick?
What were the names of the Robber Baron strategy in buying up businesses that were involved in the manufacturing process of their goods?
What is horizontal or vertical integration?