Reconstruction
This amendment ended slavery and is thought of as the first of three reconstruction amendments
What is the 13th Amendment?
This is another word for charity
What is Philanthropy?
A new process to make high quality steel by forcing air through molten iron
What is the Bessemer Process ?
When workers stopped working for a period of time to get better wages and working conditions
What is a strike?
This Amendment said that states must treat all free people like citizens which include life, liberty, property, and due process of law
what is the 14th Amendment
An extremely wealthy person who is involved in philanthropy and ethical business practices (good wages, conditions environmentally friendly etc.)
What is a Captain of Industry?
This allowed people and factories to work at all hours of the day
What is Electricity/ Lightbulb
its an group of workers who collectively start to organize and fight for higher wages, more safety regulations, and shorter work days
What is a Union
This was system where freed slaves and poor white southerners farmed land owned by another person and in exchange for a percentage of their crops. This would often lead to endless cycles of deeper and deeper debt
What is Sharecropping?
He invented the telephone, revolutionizing communication in the United States
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
This allowed goods and people to be transported overland all across the country at a significantly increased speed, ran by the Vanderbilt family
What are Railroads
a strike against American Steel Company that turned violent in 1892
What is the Homestead Strike?
These were laws intended to restrict the rights and advancement of African Americans in the south after the Civil War
What are Black Codes?
Founded the American Steel Company and used the Bessemer Method to produce high quality steel in large quantities
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This new product was initially used to lubricate machine parts, fuel lamps, and power automobiles
What is Oil
Government siding with big business, and well as violence reducing public onion
what were setbacks for worker unions?
This event ended reconstruction by giving the north the presidency in exchange for federal soldiers leaving the south
What is The Compromise of 1877
Founded Standard oil and is thought to be the richest man in American history
Who is John D. Rockefeller
These are the 3 factors of production
What are Land Labor and Capital
The first organized National Labor Union in American history
What was the Knights of Labor?