Business
A term for rich big business owners used ruthless business tactics against their competition.
Who are robber barons?
Enrollment in these groups that protected the interests of workers increased during the Gilded Age in response to long hours and harsh working conditions.
What are Labor Unions?
Big business used this type of cheap labor of minors in order to make large profits.
What is child labor?
These corrupt organized groups controlled political parties and economic activities in cities.
What are political machines?
In exchange for assimilation, this group was given small tracts of tribal land to live on called reservations.
What are Native Americans?
This robber baron owned Standard Oil and was known as a philanthropist despite his ruthless business practices.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This union strike where a union member threw a bomb at police led to an increase in anti-union propaganda from the US Government.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
The invention of this process caused and increase in industrialization due to the large supply of steel produced.
What is the Bessemer Process?
These hard working agriculturalists opposed the Gold Standard while supporting bimetallism.
Who are Populists?
A pull factor causing immigrants to settle in cities rather than agricultural areas so that they could earn a living for their families.
What are factory jobs?
Big businesses used these two strategies to buy up small businesses and monopolize business in order to increase their profits.
What is horizontal/vertical integration?
The AFL used this strategy along with strikes to bargain for better wages, hours, and conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
What is urbanization?
This act was passed to focus on reducing Asian immigration and targeted the Chinese.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Thomas Edison's light bulb invention was influenced by this African American inventors work.
Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?
Big Businesses were able to have cut throat/ruthless business practices because of this policy of no government intervention in business.
What is Laissez-Faire?
This act outlawed business monopolies, but was not very effective at limiting the power of big business.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
These were apartments built in city slums to house large amounts of people in response to to the industrial revolution.
What are settlement houses/ tenement housing?
Farmers supported this party due to their desire to be charged equal transportation fees in comparison to big railroad companies.
What is the Populist Party?
This group of immigrants experienced higher levels of prejudice and was a target of anti-immigration laws.
Who are Asian immigrants?
The idea that the rich succeeded because they were superior to the poor and the poor deserved their harsh conditions.
What is Social Darwinism?
This railroad worker strike demonstrated government support for business over workers when President Grover Cleveland sent the US Army in to end the strike.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This revolution is marked by railroads increasing the speed of long distance travel, making transportation of goods more efficient. The second of these revolutions focused on short distance travel.
What is the First Industrial Revolution?
In the late 1800s there was a push to switch to this two metal system in order to increase inflation and maximize profits for farmers.
What is bimetallism?
African American inventors all contributed to inventions that improved this long distance form of travel.
What is the railroad system?