Vocabulary
What is a strike?
This labor organization welcomed skilled and unskilled workers, women, and African-Americans. It grew to over 700,000 members by 1886.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Mark Twain coined the term to describe the late 1800s in America, where great wealth hid deep social problems and corruption.
What is the Gilded Age?
A tax on imports
What is a tariff?
The specific date in 1886 when between 300K and 500K workers across the country walked off the job in a national strike.
What is May 1, 1886?
This is the term for a large business or company.
What is a corporation?
This 1886 event in Chicago--where a bomb killed seven police officers during a labor protest--linked labor unions to radicalism and violence.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
This Kansas Populist speaker, known as Queen of the Populists, told farmers to raise less corn and more hell.
Who is Mary Elizabeth Lease?
An extremely wealthy industrial leader of the Gilded Age who may have used ruthless and illegal tactics to build their fortunes.
What is a Robber Barron?
Eight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest, and Eight Hours for What We Will is the motto for this aptly named movement.
What is the Eight Hour Day Movement?
What is 485?
This monetary system uses both gold and silver to back its currency.
What is bimetallism?
This labor organization was less radical than the Knights of Labor, and rose to prominence as the Knights' influence waned.
What is the AFL or American Federation of Labor?
J.P. Morgan was accused of controlling entire markets, indicating he was in control of multiple of these, meaning "one market"
What are monopolies?
A political movement in the 1890s which claimed to represent the interests of ordinary people, like farmers and workers, against the elite.
What is populism?
Eight men were arrested after Haymarket, tried, and convicted despite the prosecution not having THIS VERY IMPORTANT THING USED IN TRIALS.
What is "any evidence linking the accused to the crime"?
This number is how many days of school we have left, divided by the number of units we have left.
What is fifteen? (30 / 2)
This term is used to describe one company that controls an entire market.
What is a monopoly?
This practice--sharing a worker's name with other employers to prevent them from finding work--was used by companies to punish people who spoke out.
What is blacklisting?
This organization spread across the South, Midwest, and Great Plains--where crops grow--before launching a national political party.
What is the Farmers' Alliance?
When workers form this kind of organization together, they negotiate as one with employers for better wages, hours, and working conditions.
What is a union?
Who are the rich, the powerful, and the government?
Mx. Craig's first name.
What is Haley?
This is the belief that economic success is a sign of natural superiority and that helping the poor would weaken society.
What is Social Darwinism?
On May 1, 1886, between 300,000 and 500,000 workers across the country went on strike demanding this specific change to working conditions.
What is an eight-hour workday?
In the monopoly simulation, what happens to students with the least money when the seller raised prices in the second round?
What is they couldn't buy what they needed to live?
Uh-oh! This is from a previous unit. This is the term for the government not pursuing the full punishment of a crime, usually for a large number of people, all at once.
What is amnesty?
What is fiat currency?
What is Mr. Stewart?