Nicknamed "Jupiter," this financier successfully reorganized many railroad and insurance companies.
Who is J. P. Morgan?
100
This woman made it her life's work to help workes in the mining industry.
Who is Mother Jones?
100
Photographs by this National Child Labor Committee photographer would be primary sources.
Who is Lewis Hine?
100
An agreement between railroad corporations to divide business in a given area and share profits.
What is a pooling agreement or pool?
100
The refusal by an employer to allow employees to work unless they agree to his or her terms. It was used by capital during the Pullman Strike.
What is a lockout?
200
The business tycoon amassed a fortune in the oil refining business using horizontal integration.
Who is JDR?
200
These boys worked in the most hazerdous conditions in the late 19th century. Many would develop serious illnesses while picking slate out of coal shoots.
Who are the breaker boys?
200
"The Gospel of Wealth" would be even more valuable if authographed by its author...
Who is A. Carnegie?
200
This financial incentive inspired many railroad tycoons to expand their rail systems.
What is the land grant?
200
A May Day rally that turned violent when someone threw a bomb into the meeting, killing several dozen people.
What is the Haymarket Riot? 1886
300
The post-civil war business tycoons summered in this resort town.
What is Newport, RI?
300
An association of unions pursuing higher wages, shorter working hours, and better conditions.
What is the AF of L?
300
Primary sources include drawings of the "healthy, athletic, and young women of the Gilded Age.
What is the Gibson girl by Charles Dana Gibson?
300
A process of placing men from your board of directors on other competing companies to gain influence and reduce competition.
What is an interlocking directorate?
300
First inexpensive industrial process for mass production of steel and pig iron, patented in 1855
What is the Bessemer process?
400
Which industry saw the contributions of James Duke?
What is the oil industry?
400
The "one big union" that championed producer cooperatives and industrial arbitration.
What is the Knights of Labor?
400
A copy of his "Acres of Diamonds" speech is a primary document.
Who is Russell Conwell?
400
Government by the wealthy.
What is a plutocracy?
400
Democrat, governor of Illinois; pardoned 3 Knights of Labor members after a a bombing incident.
Who John P. Altgeld?
500
His Central Pacific railroad stretched 9,000 from California to Chicago.
Who is Collis Huntington?
500
A social-reform union killed by the depression of the 1870s.
What is the National Labor Union?
500
This document, which many workers were forced to sign indicating their refusal to join a labor union, is a primary source from the late 19th century and early 20th century labor movement.
What is a yellow-dog contract?
500
A method of cheap moneymaking involving inflating railroad stocks and then selling them at huge profits.
What is stock watering?
500
One of the "Big Four" railroad tycoons; an adept lobbyist. His Central Pacific Railroad extended 9,000 miles from California to New Orleans.