Game of Monopoly
railroad tycoon during the Gilded Age; self-made multi-millionaire.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
An American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist from Germany. Downfall of Tweed
Who is Thomas Nast?
Labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on broad social reforms
What is the Knights of Labor?
A company whose workers are hired without regard to their membership in a labor union
What is an open shop?
A law passed in 1890 that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Established the Standard Oil Company
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Social reformer who helped the poor; created the Hull House
Who is Jane Addams?
Violent strike that occurred when wages were cut. State militia brought in to end strike.
What is the Railroad Strike of 1877?
An agreement in which a company agrees to hire only union members
What is a closed shop?
This financial *panic* led to the consolidation of the railroad industry
What is the Panic of 1893?
Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer; "How the other half lives"
Who is Jacob Riis?
Strike at Andrew Carnegie's steel plant in which Pinkerton detectives clashed with steel workers
What is the Homestead Strike?
Contracts some employers forced workers to sign that made the workers promise not to join a union
What are yellow-dog contracts?
Created a Civil Service Commission that gave exams and selected government employees based on merit
What is the Pendleton Act?
Financier and banker who gained profits from banking. First "broker"
Who is JP Morgan?
Movement of the 1800s that urged Christians to partake in social service
What is the Social Gospel movement?
1886 labor-related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Leader of the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Increased the coinage of silver, but in amounts too small to satisfy farmers and miners
What is the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?
People who'd built fortunes by swindling investors and taxpayers, and bribing officials
What are Robber Barons?
Clergyman who highlighted discrepancy between Christianity and attitudes of the poor; wrote "Looking Backward"
Who is Edward Bellamy?
Violent 1894 railway workers' strike which began outside of Chicago and spread nationwide
What is the Pullman Strike?
National labor union formed by Samuel Gompers in 1886, made up of skilled workers
What is the AFL?
1878 law requiring the federal government to purchase and coin more silver
What is the Bland-Allison Act?