giving money to charities
philanthropy
How many feet are in one yard?
3 feet
total ownership of a product or service
Monopoly
The first national labor union
Knights of Labor
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100 Points
A period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing in the late 1800s
Second Industrial Revolution
workers repeating the same step over and over
Specialization
What year did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon?
1969
organized individual national unions
American Federation of Labor
introduced the Model T in 1908
Henry Ford
Protested a plan to buy new machinery and cut jobs
Homestead Strike
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300 Points
Exclusive rights to make or sell inventions
Patents
George Pullman laid off workers and cut pay for those left
Pullman Strike
A view of society based on scientist Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection “survival of the fittest”
Social Darwinism
published “The principles of Scientific Management”
Frederick W. Taylor
built a lightweight airplane that used a small, gas-powered engine
Wilber and Orville Wright
all workers acting collectively, or together
Collective bargaining
Businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares
Corporations
Workers went on strike because they wanted an 8-hour work day
Haymarket Riot
A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply
Bessemer process
owning all businesses in certain fields
Horizontal Integration
•In March 1976, this person patented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
a law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade
Sherman Antitrust Act
ownership of businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process
Vertical integration