Unions, Actions, responses
Fighting monopolistic railroads, archived the “granger laws” and revealed farmers as a political power
The grange movement
Implied that they they stole their fortunes by paying lower wages
Robber barons
Author of ”The jungle” , revealed the unsanitary conditions of meatpacking plants
Upton Sinclair
gave women the right to vote
19th amendment
Merging to acquire other companies
Horizontal Integration
Began when a bomb killed a police flicker, resulted in 8 anarchists being convicted of conspiracy to commit murder
HayMarket Riot 1886
Used to refer to people like Andrew Carnegie. Means to steer country in direction of economic prosperity
Captains of industry
She exposed Rockefeller business practices. He was charging high prices, paying low wages, making huge profits.
Ida Tarbell
Formed the basis of the federal income tax system, gave congress the power to levy taxes
16th amendment
Buying out your competitors
Vertical integration
Organized all laborers regardless of race, gender, or trade. Called for an 8 hour workday
The knights of labor
invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Exposed the crowded unsafe rat infested tenement buildings
Jacob Riis
Provided voters with the right to directly elect their senators
17th amendment
Corporation that buys out stock of other companies
Holding Company
Carnegie Crushed this strike with strikebreakers and the national guard, broke apart the union
Homestead Strike Plant 1892
Turned iron into steel
Bessemer process
designed to regulate railroad industry, and its monopolistic practices
Interstate commerce Act
Banned the making, selling, and distribution of alcohol , resulted in a time known as the prohibition era
18th amendment
Different companies working together, who then split the profits earned
Trust
The American Federation of Labor
Took mass production to a new level, introduced assembly lines, doubled wages, reduced hours, and he believed that with more money and time they would buy more cars.
Henry Ford
Created the tenement reform commission, worked towards developing fair system to hire workers, made some corporations pay taxes
Theodore Roosevelt
Prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace
Sherman Anti trust Act
When an enterprise is the only seller of a good or service,
Monopoly