Key Terms
This Captain of Industry or Robber Baron used predatory pricing and this method to consolidate other companies under his own to corner the market.
What is horizontal integration.
This act passed in 1862, allowed settlers to own land ceded by the government after a number of years and helped the U.S. settle the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
This man developed the idea of scientific management, or using strict rules to govern worker behavior, and timed repetitive tasks.
Who is Frederick Taylor (or Taylorism).
This financier eventually bought Andrew Carnegie's Steel company, creating 1 billion dollar net worth company.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This Supreme Court case decided that Congress could make any Native American policies it so chose.
What is Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock?
What is Alaska?
These workers were often found in offices and professional positions.
Who were white collared workers?
This Native American leader attacked Custer and his men at Little Bighorn, destroying Custer's force.
Who is Sitting Bull.
This was a religious movement practiced by Native Americans in hopes of a return of the buffalo, old ways, and disappearance of the white man.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
This strike of 1877 led to chaos, violence, and loss of life in a number of cities with workers striking in reaction to job cuts.
What is the Railroad Strike of 1877?
This is the method of lowering prices to eliminate competition and was used by American industrialists during the Gilded Age.
What is predatory pricing?
Huge silver lode found in Western Nevada led to the altering of the environment and heavy mining in North Western Nevada.
What is the Comstock Lode?
This man developed the assembly line and the concept of vertical integration.
Who is Gustavus Swift?
These workers saw an increased involvement in corporate culture, beginning with office stenographers but also later including clerical and entry level positions.
Who are women?
This Labor Party grew out of the Grange movement and advocated for 8 hour work day, better wages, and increased government printing of greenback currency to stimulate the economy.
What is the Greenback Labor Party?
US joined this in 1870 to regulate its currency and guard against inflation.
This was an act by Congress that barred immigration of Chinese and denied Chinese immigrants citizenship that lived in the U.S. from 1882 to 1943.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This historian wrote the Frontier Thesis, or the idea the America had reached the end of frontier, but the frontier really impacted American culture and history, setting it apart from its European neighbors.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
This act broke up nomadic Native American culture, granting heads of Native American families land.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This treaty opened up American trade with Japan, and the ability to refuel ships overseas.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
This method of concentration of business was pioneered by Gustavus Swift and was based on a company controlling all manners of production from beginning to end.
What is vertical integration?
This is the term for assimilating into another culture; this happened in the case of Native Americans giving up their own culture and being educated and adopting "white ways" in the West.
What is acculturation?
This labor leader headed the AFL, or American Federation of Labor, which was a skilled labor union.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
This is the practice of instituting remote tasks for workers, and making them part of an assembly line.
What is the deskilling of labor?
The Knights of Labor, a union open to skilled and unskilled laborers, suffered a crushing blow to their reputation after this riot.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?