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Technological Revolution
The Growth of Big Business
Industrialization and Workers
The Great Strikes
Odds and Ends
100
Samuel F. B. Morse.
Who took out a patent on telegraphy?
100
Competition in the marketplace wastes time and money.
What would John D. Rockefeller disagree with?
100
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Who set out to improve working conditions in steel plants?
100
This strike took place in 1892 in Homestead, PA against Carnegie Steel.
What is the Homestead Strike?
100
A new process to make steel more efficiently
What is Bessemer Process
200
electric lighting
What improved daily living?
200
The bringing together of many firms that were in the same business.
What is horizontal consolidation?
200
piecework
What is the system where workers who worked the fastest and produced the most pieces earned the most money?
200
An economic and political philosophy that favors public(or social) control of property and income.
What is socialsim
200
The leader of the Wobblies
Who is Big Bill Haywood?
300
Bessemer
A new process of steel making was created by who?
300
Social Darwinism
What is most accepted theory in the 1800s?
300
A way of producing in which tasks are performed by different people
What is division of labor?
300
a negative term for a worker called in by an employer to replace striking workers
What is a scab
300
Violently opposed all forms of government
Who are anarchists?
400
phonograph
Which of the following was invented by Thomas Edison? Typewriter,Vacuum cleaner,phonograph or street car?
400
The law that outlawed any combination of companies that restrained interstate trade or commerce.
What is The Sherman Antitrust Act
400
This social reformer and writer took photos of the run-down tenement houses lived in by immigrants.
Who is Jacob Riis
400
collective bargaining
What is the process in which workers negotiate as a group with employers.
400
The inventor of the refrigerated shipping?
Who is Gustavas Swift
500
Robber Barons and Captains of Industry
What are the names given to powerful industrialists in the late 1800's?
500
Carnegie used this type of consolidation.
What is vertical consolidation?
500
This book by Jacob Riis explained the impact of factory work on children
What is Children of the Poor
500
An 1892 strike in PA against Carnegie Steel
What is the Homestead Strike
500
This group made the first major attempt to unionize
Who are the Knights of Labor?