Robber Barons
Andrew Carnegie was in charge of this industry.
Steel
The cartoonists that brought down boss Tweed
Thomas Nast
Something that pushes an immigrant out of their home land.
Push factors.
The process that helped to make steel easier and cheaper to make.
The Bessemer process.
The labor union that let in African-Americans, White People, Men, Women, Skilled, and Unskilled workers.
The Knights of Labor.
JD Rockefeller was in charge of this industry.
Oil
The reason President James Garfield was assassinated.
He refused a civil service/government job to someone.
Something that pulls immigrants to their new country.
Pull factors.
The process that Andrew Carnegie used to eliminate his competition. It involves owning and controlling every step of production from raw materials to transporting the final product.
Vertical Integration
The labor union that only let in skilled white male workers.
The American Federation of Labor.
The idea by Carnegie that says that the rich are suppose to help poor. They are mean to be philanthropic.
The Social Gospel
When the government stays out of business.
Laissez-faire
The act that stopped Chinese immigration to the United States.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
The process JD Rockefeller used to eliminate his competition. This process involved buying up the competition to get them out of business.
Horizontal integration.
When railroad workers decided to strike after their wages were cut. They asked for help form Eugene Debs.
Pullman Strike of 1894
The reason these men were called robber barons.
They often used underhanded business practices to get their way including trusts.
The policy that was mean to breakup the trusts set up by the robber barons.
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
The feeling of hating or disliking immigrants.
Nativism
The robber baron that was over finance and eventually bought Carnegie's steel company. He named it US Steel
J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie went on vacation. His partner cut their workers' wages and they decided to strike. Pinkertons were called and violence broke out on both sides. The labor union lost.
The Homestead Strike of 1892 in Pittsburg, PA.
Name three major robber barons.
Andrew Carnegie, JD Rockefeller, JP Morgan
The name of the man who assassinated President James Garfield.
Charles Guiteau
Helped immigrants and the poor find housing and jobs in exchange for votes.
Political Machines
The leader of the American Federation of Labor.
Samuel Gompers
When violence broke out in Chicago during a protest of police brutality. Someone through a bomb and the Knights of Labor were blamed.
The Haymarket Riot of 1886