VOCABULARY
The owner of the standard oil company
What is John. D Rockefeller?
Owner of banking industry
what is J.P Morgan ?
Workers for big businesses
what is immigrants?
what year was the Great Railroad Strike?
what is 1877?
Horizontal Integration
what is Buy out your competition until you have control of a single area of industry?
a immigration station that opened in 1892
what is Ellis Island?
Owner of Oil industry
A group of people that fought for better working conditions
what is the union?
Great Railroad Strike
what is employees began to strike at several railroad companies. 100+ dead?
Monopoly
what is one business owns the entire market for any industry?
Full name of NAACP
what is National Association of the Advancement of Colored People?
Owner of steel industry
Law passed to regulate businesses against forming monopolies
What is Sherman Anti-Trust act?
The Haymarket Riot
what is Workers were striking until someone throw a bomb, police began to shoot. 11 dead?
Robber Baron
what is a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices?
Plessy V. Ferguson
what is "Separate but Equal"?
Owner of railroad Industry
what is Cornelius Vanderbilt ?
People that were subject to low wages, long workdays, no vacations, and unsafe workplaces
what year was the pullman strike?
what is 1894?
Vertical Integration
what is you control all phases of production from the raw material to the finished product?
demand the removal of an elected official
what is recall?
Inventor of the lightbulb
What is Thomas Edison?
Union strategies included
What is strikes, protest, and political influence?
The pullman Strike
wha is cut wages and raised rent. Eugene V. Debs led the strike. Slowed trains throughout the U.S. Ended when government troops were sent by Grover Cleveland?
Trusts
what is owners in competition with each other get together and create rules and regulations that they all will follow?