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100
What are the four big businesses and who own which business in the late 1800 hundreds?
Oil-Rockefeller Steel-Carnegie Banking-J.P. Morgan Railroad/Transportation- Vanderbilts
100
What are some of the changes brought about by industrialization and factory work.
Massive immigration spike, wider gap between rich and poor, million dollar companies, rise of big business, economic boom for US production and the rich, ect...
100
How did the railroads effect the cities?
When the railroad goes through a city it thrives but when it doesn't the city dies.
100
Which major railroad company funded by the federal government started from the east and meet up in Utah?
Union Pacific Railroad
200
Explain what vertical and horizontal integration are.
Vertical-In control of everything, from getting material to selling them Horizontal- Taking over rival business in order to control the market.
200
Define these terms. 1. Lockouts 2. Yellow-dog contracts 3. Black list
Lockouts- Locking a strike union in a room with no supplies until they forfeit or starve. Yellow-dog contracts- Contract not allowing workers to join Labor Unions. Black List- List of rebellious workers passed around to other employers.
200
How did cities start to change compared to post-Civil War cities.
With the invention of steel came the construction of skyscrapers, causing the cities to build higher and compact more people than ever before.
200
Which railroad companies got land grants?
Central ans Union Pacific Railroads
300
What was the gospel of wealth philosophy and who used it.
The thought process that what the rich are doing are perfectly within the law and nothing that they are doing is illegal.
300
Identify the goals of each Labor Union. 1. National Labor Union 2. Knights of Labor 3. American Federation of Labor
NLU- politics, higher wages, 8 hr work day, land and currency reforms, political change, skilled and unskilled whites. K of F- Same as NLU, equality, no politics, radical changes, child labor, immigration, government services. AF of L- Group of many unions, same as NLU, better work condiitions, political change, realistic changes.
300
What were the conditions like in the cities during this time period.
During this time, cities were horribly polluted, people were condenced, and in general terrible conditions.
300
What is the Interstate Commerce Act 1887?
Regulated the rates of railroads for today
400
Why do big businesses have so much power?
They had so much money they could bribe out other competitors, riots, and even federal/state congressmen.
400
What was the Haymarket Square incident and what was the effects of it?
Definition - A labor strike organized by the Knights of Labor which eventually turned violent when a bomb was thrown when police came to silence it. Effect - The Knights of Labor's slowly lost credibility and eventually fell out of power.
400
How does land grants benefit companies and the government?
Companies-free land,loans,monopoly Government-connects west to east,more money, and military
500
Why was big business and monopolizing the market never outlawed by the federal government during this time.
Many times the companies would stick within one specific state so the federal government could not intervene. Many people believed that the practices that businesses did were to be protected by the government and not taken away. Not to mention that many congressmen were bribed in order to protect the companies.
500
Why did labor unions form and what did the courts rule about the Unions?
Labor unions were formed because the relationship between workers and employer eventually went turned hostile and the individual workers could not change anything by themselves. The Courts eventually ruled that the Big Businesses were technically people under the fourteenth amendment so they could not intervene.
500
What are positive effects of the railroads?
Connected west and the east,allowed better transportation,