was pioneered by tycoon Andrew Carnegie. It is when you combine into one organization all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing.
Vertical Integration
100
This was a belief held by many that stated that the rich were rich and the poor were poor due to natural selection in society. This was the basis of many people who promoted a laissez fairee style of economy.
What is Social Darwinism
100
Author of The Gospel of Wealth
Who was Andrew Carnegie
100
schools that were established in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to educate Native American children.
Indian Boarding Schools
100
Supreme Court upheld the Granger laws. Allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders, including railroads, and is commonly regarded as a milestone in the growth of federal government regulation
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
200
Large business with significant market power. Refers to monopolies or near-monopolies
What is a trust
200
Term coined by Mark Twain (sarcastically because of the corruption) to describe the tremendous increase in wealth caused by the industrial age and the ostentatious lifestyles it allowed the very rich
What is the Gilded Age
200
American businessman - founder of Standard Oil Co. (major monopoly)
Who is John D. Rockefeller
200
A vision for a self-sufficient southern economy built on modern capitalist values, industrial growth, and improved transportation. Popularized by Henry Grady.
What is the New South
200
Supreme Court decision that prohibited states from regulating the railroads because the Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce
Wabash, St.Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois (1886)
300
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west
What are Transcontinental Railroad
300
A reform movement led by Protestant ministers who used religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor.
What is Social Gospel
300
African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcars or shop in white owned stores
Who is Ida B. Wells
300
Political agenda adopted by the populist party in 1892 convention. Called for unlimited coinage of silver, government regulation of railroads and industry, graduated income tax, and a number of election reforms.
What is the Omaha Platform
300
Laws which promoted segregation
What are Jim Crow laws
400
list of people who agitated companies that was circulated to employers so they couldn't get jobs
What are Black Lists
400
A 1894 strike by railroad workers upset by drastic wage cuts. The strike was led by socialist Eugene Debs but not supported by the American Federation of Labor. Eventually President Grover Cleveland intervened and federal troops forced an end to the strike.
What is the Pullman Strike
400
Democratic nominee in1896. A supporter of farmers, “free silver,” and against imperialism
Who is Willam Jennings Bryan
400
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing
What is the Dawes Act of 1887
400
Supreme Court ruling that effectively established the constitutionality of racial segregation and the notion of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
500
Jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners
What is a cooperative
500
Leader of the Knights of Labor
Who was Terrence Powderly
500
Early 1900's muckraker who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives"; exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC and Hell's Kitchen
Jacob Riis
500
Halted Chinese immigration to America in 1882. Started when people of the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic troubles to the hated Chinese workers
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
500
Supreme Court approved the use of court injunctions against strikes, which gave employers a very powerful weapon to break unions.