A system that quickly removes impurities from iron by blasting hot air through it and this system was helpful for the production for the steel industry.
What is the Bessemer Process?
100
Leaders of Labor unions negotiate for better wages and working conditions on behalf of all workers in a factory, and try to discuss their demands with their employers.
What is collective bargaining?
100
Neighborhoods outside of the downtown areas, where people lived and they were quieter than the cities.
What is the suburbs?
100
A social and educational organization that was created for farmers and founded by Oliver Hudson Kelley.
What is National Grange?
200
John Rockefeller used this business system, of grouping of a number of companies under one board of directors, for his oil refining business.
What is a trust?
200
The leader of the Knights of Labor who turned the labor union into an organized national union in the US.
Who is Terence V. Powderly?
200
An area below the ship's deck, where many immigrants traveled on their journeys from their native countries to the US.
What is a steerage?
200
The Act passed by Congress that provided consistent national regulations over trade between states in the Railroad system.
What is Interstate Commerce Act?
300
Thomas Edison, was known to have been awarded several of these- exclusive rights to making or selling inventions.
What is a patent?
300
The Union leader who organized strikes to defend the rights of Virginia miners.
Who is Mary Harris"Mother" Jones?
300
A type of organization that was formed by immigrant communities and helped others in case of sickness, unemployment and death.
What is a benevolent society?
300
The Populist candidate that ran for the President in 1892 and had 8.5 percent of the total popular vote.
Who is James B. Weaver?
400
During the 2nd Industrial Revolution, the US government favored a business term, in which the federal government was not involved in business activity.
What is free enterprise?
400
The Labor union that belonged to only skilled workers and organized individual national unions.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
400
A famous settlement house in Chicago in the late 1800's created by Jane Addams.
What is the Hull House?
400
The Coinage Act of 1873 helped establish this concept, in which paper money was backed only by gold.
What is the gold standard?
500
Andrew Carnegie, used this business term in his steel industry, in which he owned all the businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process of making his products of steel.
What is vertical integration?
500
A strike at a Carnegie steel plant in Pennsylvania, in which the laborers, were mad that the manager wanted to try to negotiate contracts individually rather than negotiating with the labor unions.
What is Homestead Strike ?
500
Native born Americans formed this organization, in which they wanted immigrants to improve their reading and writing skills before they could enter into the country.
What is the Immigrant Restriction League?
500
In the issue of railroad regulation and government, this was the US Supreme court case that stated only federal government could regulate interstate traffic, not state governments.