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This economic philosophy promoted minimal government interference in business.
What is laissez-faire?
This is the term to describe a business person whose practices are considered unethical
What is a robber baron?
This term, coined by President Theodore Roosevelt, refers to journalists who exposed corruption and societal issues in the early 20th century.
What is muckraker?
This type of organization was formed by workers to advocate for better pay, hours, and working conditions.
What is a labor union?
This is where Ms. Turcotte attended Elementary School.
What is Peace Dale Elementary School.
A business practice where a coorporation owns all phases of production from start to finish.
What is vertical integration?
This is the term to describe a businessman who went from rags to riches because of an excellent work ethic, and has fullfilled their American Dream
What is a Captain of Industry?
This journalist exposed the horrors of meatpacking in The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The labor movement fought to improve these three key aspects of workers’ lives.
What are wages, hours, and working conditions?
What year was the first Iphone released?
What is 2007?
A business practice where a corporation cuts prices and buys out competitors to control the market
What is horiztonal integration?
This industrialist founded Standard Oil and became one of the richest men in history.
John D. Rockefeller
This muckraker took thousands of photos of children working in dangerous conditions.
Who is Lewis Hine?
This early labor union fought for an 8-hour workday and accepted women and African Americans as members.
What is the Knights of Labor?
What's the capital of iceland?
What is Reykjavik?
This was a misapplication of evolution and applies it to people: it is the belief that the ability to create wealth is natural for some people and not for others, and wealthy people were destined to succeed
What is social darwinism?
This Gilded Age business man is a Scottish Immigrant who dominated the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Lewis Hine worked and took photos for the NCLC, which stands for this.
What is the National Child Labor Committee?
The violent 1894 strike against a railway company led to federal troops being sent in.
What is the Pullman Strike?
These four teams are the men's NCAA basketball final four.
What are, Florida, Auburn, Houston, Duke?
This 1890 law aimed to break up monopolies but was initially used against labor unions.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This was a book written by Andrew Carnegie in which he stated his beliefs that the division/socio-economic gap between rich and poor is inevitable, and that the wealthy are duty-bound to share wealth with the poor
The Gospel of Wealth
The Jungle was so shocking that it helped lead to the passage of this 1906 law regulating the meat industry.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This labor leader helped organize the Pullman Strike and later became a key figure in the Socialist movement.
Who is Eugene Debs?
What is the only letter that doesn’t appear in the periodic table?
What is 'J'?