Industry
Industry leaders; 1%ers; monopolistic tendencies; exploited workers
What are robber barons?
Early labor union; included women; united skilled and unskilled workers
What is/who are the Knights of Labor?
Group who pledged never to employ or vote for a Roman Catholic
What is the American Protective Association?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine meant to convince colonists to declare their independence from Great Britain
What is Common Sense?
Theory used to defend social and economic hierarchies
What is Social Darwinism?
He wrote a famous novel exposing the horrors of the meatpacking industry in Chicago
Who was Upton Sinclair?
A philosophy opposed to immigration and the perceived threats they brought to American society
What is nativism?
He wrote, "If the black man and the yellow man each desire to remain with us, occupying the sphere in life for which God Almighty intended each, let them do so. If not content with that, then let them go elsewhere."
Who is Frank Clark?
First "Constitution" of the United States; gave too much power to the state governments
What is the Articles of Confederation?
State militias deployed; infrastructure and property destroyed; federal troops involved; foreshadowed decades of labor conflict
What is the Great Railroad Strike (of 1877)?
Alternative union to Knights of Labor; conservative; skilled workers only
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Barred “yellow hordes” from entering the country for ten years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Established that racial segregation laws did not necessarily violate the U.S. Constitution
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Woman who was banished from Massachusetts Bay for challenging Puritan authority and orthodoxy.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Law promoting competition by prohibiting monopolies
What is the Sherman Antitrust act? OR What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
Bad P.R. for labior unions; policemen killed when bomb went off; occurred in Chicago in 1886
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Activist who addressed poverty, disease, and prejudice through "social settlements"
Who is Jane Addams?
Forced voters to spend money in order to participate in elections; used in the Jim Crow South
What is a poll tax?
Two countries that are recently in the news: 1 of them because President Trump has stated he would like to purchase it as a means for protection; the 2nd because the US recently arrested it's leader.
What are Greenland and Venezuela?
Scientific management; increased output
What is Taylorism?
Pennsylvania Carnegie steel mill; state militia called in; union destroyed
What is the Homestead Strike?
Nickname for journalists who exposed economic exploitation, political corruption, etc.
Who are muckrakers?
Born in Massachusetts; earned PhD from Harvard
Who is WEB DuBois?
Any three of the 5 riches "Captains of Industries" (or "Robber Barons") in US History.
Who are: 1) Elon Musk; 2) John D. Rockefeller; 3) Andrew Carnegie; ;4) Cornelius Vanderbilt; 5) Larry Page?