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Carnegie's Innovations/Misc.
Social Darwinism and Business/Consolidation
Labor Unions
Strikes Turn Violent
Review
100
This act made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or within other countries
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
100
This was a term used for the "Captains of Industry" who were particularly exploitative and greedy
What is Robber Baron
100
This was one of the reasons that being a worker during the late 1800s, early 1900s was difficult and dangerous
What is long hours, low pay, unsanitary and unsafe conditions, performing mindless and repetitive tasks, no vacation or sick leave, 6 or 7 day work week
100
This is the term for workers used to break strikes
What is a scab
100
This is the factor that most contributed to manufacturers being able to build their factories away from rivers
What is electricity
200
Industrial growth was concentrated in this region of the US
What is the North
200
This was discouraged by social Darwinism
What is government regulation
200
This is the term for a workshop in a tenement rather than a factory. These were often the only option for women and children, and often paid the lowest wages
What is a sweatshop
200
The Great Strike of 1877 took place in this industry
What is the railroad industry
200
This made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s
What is steel
300
This is the name for the process by which a business buys out all of their suppliers in order to control the raw materials and transportation systems
What is vertical integration
300
This is a term that means having complete control over an industry's production, wages, and prices
What is a monopoly
300
This union, headed by Samuel Gompers, focused on collective bargaining to achieve their goals
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
300
This is the name for the event that occurred in Chicago of 1886 when a bomb was thrown at police and 8 anarchists/immigrants/labor leaders were subsequently arrested and/or executed
What is the Haymarket Affair
300
The goal of this act was to lower excessive railroad rates
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
400
This is the process by which companies producing similar products merge
What is horizontal integration
400
This is the French term that means "allow to do," which is used to refer to totally unregulated free market capitalism
What is laissez-faire
400
This man was the head of the powerful American Railway Union and was a radical labor activist
Who is Eugene Debs
400
This is the name of the strike that took place at Carnegie Steel Company's plant in Pennsylvania; it ended with 3 private detectives and 9 workers dead
What is the Homestead Strike
400
This is one of two groups that primarily benefitted from standardized time and time zones
What is railroad companies/train travelers
500
This is the term for a corporation set up for the sole purpose of buying out the stock of other companies
What is a holding company
500
This man, owner of the Standard Oil Company, was a big proponent of consolidation practices like trusts
Who is John D. Rockefeller
500
This union was organized by radical unionists and socialists who wanted to overthrow capitalism; it is still around to this day
What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
500
This is the location of a 1911 fire that killed 146 women; the fire caused public outrage at the dismal working conditions
What is Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire
500
This man first used a steam engine to drill for oil, making removing oil from beneath the earth's surface practical
Who is Edwin L. Drake