involved clashes between steel workers and the Pinkerton Detectives.
What is the Homestead Strike?
200
Discovered oil in Texas in 1859
Who is Edwin Drake?
200
Used Vertical and Horizontal integration to make a fortune in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
Controlling the three phases of production for your industry.
What is Vertical integration?
200
Created new opportunities for women in the workplace.
What is the typewriter and the telephone?
200
Involved a firebomb being thrown at police and the deaths of numerous people.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
300
Invented the typewriter.
Who is Christopher Sholes?
300
Owned Standard Oil Company
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
Controlling all competition in your industry.
What is Horizontal integration?
300
C.F. Dowd created this to solve problems face by the railroad.
What are time zones?
300
Resulted in federal troops forcing workers to return to work due to the loss of commerce.
What is Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Strike?
400
Created the International Cigar Makers Union and later led the AFL.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
400
Labor leader who believed socialism was the answer to the problems faced by workers.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
400
Sought to end all monopolies in the U.S. but was extremely ineffective.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
The three things railroads expansion led to in the U.S.
What are growth of cities, growth of industry, and increased settlement of the west?
400
Caused many to question capitalism and turn to Socialism and Communism.
What is the Panic of 1893?
500
Most prominent organizer in the women's labor movement. She supported the Great Strike of 1877 and later organized for the United Mine Workers of America (UMW). She was nicknamed "Mother Jones."
Who is Mary Harris Jones?
500
Created a town for his workers.
Who is George Pullman?
500
Belief that wealth and success were a sign of God's favor.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Gave control of interstate commerce back to the Federal Government.
What is Interstate Commerce Act?
500
Scandal involving government officials skimming money after over charging on government construction jobs.