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Second Industrial Revolution
Industrial Workers
Immigrants and Cities
Populism
Random Mix
100
Exclusive Right to Make or Sell an Invention
What is a Patent
100
This person turned the Knights of Labor into the first truly organized labor union in the United States.
What is Terence V. Powderly
100
An area below a ship's deck where the steering mechanisms are located
What is steerage
100
Means that both gold and silver were made into coins
What is Free Coinage
100
Neighborhoods Outside of downtown areas
What is suburbs
200
Business activity without government involvement
What is Free Enterprise
200
Which group organized individual national unions
What is American Federation of Labor
200
The Most Famous Settlement House
What is the Hull House
200
Political Organizations formed by farmers to increase their power
What are Farmers Alliances
200
Grouping together a number of companies under a single board of directors
What is a Trust
300
During the second Industrial Revolution what grew?
What is Manufacturing Processes
300
Leaders negotiate for better wages and working conditions on behalf of all workers in a factory or industry in what group?
What is Collective Bargaining Unions
300
Demanded that immigrants prove they could read and write before being allowed into the country.
What is the Immigrant Restriction League
300
Placed on every dollar and coin by the Coinage Act of 1873
What is the Gold Standard
300
Quickly removed impurities from iron by blasting hot air through it
What is the Bessemer Process
400
Whose mills produced more steel than was produced in all of Great Britain
What is Andrew Carnegie
400
Members of the American Railway Union supported what strike by refusing to work on trains
What is Pullman Strikes
400
New Immigrants came from these places in what year?
What is Eastern and Southern Europe around the 1880s
400
Social and Educational Organization for Farmers
What is National Grange
400
Organization formed by immigrant communities and helped others in case of sickness, unemployment, and death
What is Benevolent Society
500
Just as railroads affected transportation in the United States, these two things changed the way the nation was powered
What is Oil and Electricity
500
This Union Leader Organized Strikes to defend the rights of Virginia Miners
What is Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
500
In order to provide some consistent national regulations over trade between states, Congress passed what?
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
500
Populist Party Candidate that won about 8.5 percent of the total popular vote in the election of 1892
What is James B. Weaver
500
It was difficult to convince laborers to join unions in the late 1800s, most unions were what in fighting against large companies during this period
What is Ineffective