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Vocab
Misc.
100
This person wrote The Jungle. It exposed the meat packing industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
100
Carnegie
What is the steel industry?
100
Organized Labor
What is a Union?
100
A way to structure a business that limited liability and gained lots of capital.
What is a corporation?
100
Regulate railroads
What is Intersate Commerce Act?
200
Oil Industry
Who is Rockefeller?
200
Organized Skilled workers, Samuel Gompers was the most prominent leader.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
200
Arguing together for better conditions, strength in numbers.
What is collective bargaining?
200
government controls everything in society.
What is communism?
200
Another name for the boss.
What is management?
300
Uses an assembly line to produce the model T.
Who is Henry Ford?
300
One of the earliest unions, were not successful because all races and skill levels were mixed together.
What is is Knights of Labor?
300
These are two tools of the union.
What are strikes and picket lines?
300
Westinghouse.
What is a air brake for trains?
300
Protects free competition.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
This person exposed the urban poor by taking photographs of the slums.
Who is Jacob Riis?
400
A muckraker who exposed Rockefeller's rebates.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
400
This person will cross strike lines, he/she is a replacement worker.
What is a scab?
400
Arbitration
What is a 3rd party intervention to resolve a conflict between workers and management?
400
Journalists who exposed the ills of society.
What are muckrakers?
500
Frank Norris
What is the Octopus?
500
This person wrote The Better Cry of the Children, which exposed child labor.
Who is John Spargo?
500
Industrial Union: the workers in all of the parts of the railroad went on strike.
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
Two of the three "tools of management."
What are a lockout, a blacklist, or a strike breaker?
500
Another term for the Industrial Revolution. Shows the wealth and technology mixed with the harsh treatment of workers and the poor.
What is the Gilded Age?