Inventions & Innovations
Monopolies and Pools and Trusts, Oh My!
Gone on Strike
Home on the Grange
Let's TACO 'Bout It
100
The Industrial Revolution saw rapid changes in American manufacturing, with a shift from goods being made by hand to now being made in ___________
What are factories?
100
This title is typically applied to businessmen of the Industrial Age that engaged in exploitative and monopolistic business practices
What is a Robber Baron?
100
Samuel Gompers founded this labor union in 1886
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
100
This group of people were the members of the Populist Party and Granger Movement
What are Farmers?
100
Laborers, typically being “crushed” by low wages and poor working conditions such as those working for the Pullman Railroad Company, participated in these acts as a means to fight for higher pay and conditions
What are Labor Strikes?
200
This innovation revolutionized the transportation of goods during the Industrial Revolution, allowing people and goods to travel from coast to coast faster than ever before
What are Railroads?
200
This was the name of the corporation created by John D. Rockefeller in the late 19th century, which quickly became one of the most powerful monopolies in the world and eventually led to the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
What is the Standard Oil Trust?
200
These were formed in response to the unfair and exploitative practices of big businesses of the Industrial period
What are Labor Unions?
200
The Populist Party wanted government ownership of this industry to protect farmers from predatory pricing
What is the Railroad Industry?
200
This political cartoon is demonstrating the result of this act passed by Congress in 1900
What is the Gold Standard Act of 1900?
300
This technological innovation developed by Samuel Morse revolutionized communication during the Industrial Revolution by allowing the transmission of messages over long distances in a short amount of time
What is the Telegraph?
300
This mass production technique revolutionized manufacturing in the U.S. and allowed businesses to grow dramatically
What is the Assembly Line?
300
This is defined as a stoppage of work, usually as a form of protest in an effort to have employers meet workers’ demands
What is a Labor Strike?
300
The “Free Silver” policy that was desired by the Populist Party would have increased the amount of silver in circulation and caused this effect within the economy
What is Inflation?
300
This political cartoon is depicting this prominent issue and exploitative practice, which was fairly common in factories during the Industrial Revolution
What is Child Labor?
400
Early factories, such as the textile mills established in Lowell, MA in the early 19th century, relied on this natural resource to power their factories
What is water?
400
This can be described as the ultimate defining characteristic of monopolies
What is the Elimination of Competition?
400
This event led the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to bring public awareness to the importance and establishment of fire safety codes and increased working conditions for factory workers
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911?
400
This was the title of the speech delivered by the Democratic/Populist presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan in 1896 which advocated for the “Free Silver” policy and gained tremendous support from farmers
What is the “Cross of Gold” speech?
400
This political cartoon depicts this action that was the basis of many labor unions of the late 19th century, and even labor unions today
What is Collective Action?
500
This geographical feature connected the iron deposits of the Upper Midwest to major steel centers of the East Coast (such as Pittsburgh)
What are the Great Lakes?
500
These two acts passed by Congress both attempted to regulate the practices of businesses during the late 19th century
What are the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887?
500
Along with strikes, some labor unions also relied on this tactic, which is the process of negotiation between laborers and employers using an independent third party to settle disputes
What is Arbitration?
500
The Wabash Case of 1886 ruled that the power to regulate _________ belongs solely to the federal government and not state governments, as declared within the U.S. Constitution
What is Interstate Commerce?
500
Of the three “E”’s that can be used to describe someone as a Robber Baron, this “E” is being portrayed in this political cartoon
What is “Engaging in Corrupt Practices”?