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It occurs when a firm is being taken over by, or merged with, another firm which is in the same industry and in the same stage of production as the merged firm, e.g. a car manufacturer merging with another car manufacturer. In this case both the companies are in the same stage of production and also in the same industry. A business tactic, often employed by Gilded Age businessmen, that seeks to put competitors out of business by selling one type of product in various markets.
What is horizontal intergration
100
America’s most famous inventor who had 1,093 patents and created the electric power system and light bulb.
What is Thomas Edison
100
This Act was a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act created a federal regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), which it charged with monitoring railroads to ensure that they complied with the new regulations
Interstate Commerce Act
100
What bombing happened in 1886, in Chicago
What is the Haymarket Square bombing
100
Speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic presidential nominating convention in 1896. In the speech, Bryan railed against the gold standard and proposed to issue paper money that would be backed by silver. Though he lost the election, his speech is regarded as one of the finest speeches ever delivered in American politics.
What is "Cross of Gold” Speech
200
Built a giant steel empire using vertical integration.
What is Andrew Carnegie
200
President of Tuskegee Institute, the first major black industrial college; believed that economic equality would bring equal rights for blacks
What is Booker T. Washington
200
This Act established gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, stopping bimetallism (which had allowed silver in exchange for gold).
What is the Gold Standard Act
200
The ship that exploded in Havana Harbor, which was areason for the Spanish-American war.
What is the USS Maine
200
A social settlement founded by Jane Addams in the slums of Chicago in 1889. It attempted to improve life for the city’s impoverished immigrants by offering them classes, counseling, and day-care services.
What is Hull House
300
This act lead to the civil service commision two years later.
What is Pendleton Act
300
A social reformer and college-educated woman who founded Hull House in 1889 in one of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. Hull House provided counseling, day-care services, and adult education classes to help local immigrants.
What is Jane Addams
300
This Act was United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on May 8, 188. It allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act
300
Depression of 1893 A depression caused by overspeculation, depressed agricultural prices, and weakened American credit abroad. The worst depression in America since the 1870s, it hit farmers hard and left millions in the cities without work. President Grover Cleveland’s inability to end the depression caused social unrest and helped strengthen the Populist Party’s following.
What is The Depression of 1893
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A business strategy, often used by Gilded Age tycoons, that attempts to insulate a company from competition by integrating every aspect of production into a single company, thus eliminating middlemen. Steel baron Andrew Carnegie, for example, owned coal and iron fields, railroads, shipping companies, and marketing interests that were involved in the transportation and sale of his steel. By eliminating expensive middlemen, businessmen like Carnegie could secure more profit for themselves.
What is Vertical Intergration
400
In this election William Jennings Bryan loses to the republican senator William Mckinley.
What is Election of 1896
400
Democratic congressman from Nebraska; won party’s nomination for president in 1896 after giving famous “Cross of Gold” speech
What is William Jennings Bryan
400
This Act provided pensions for all Union Army veterans who had served ninety days and who were unable to perform manual labor, whether or not the cause of their disability was related to their service in the American Civil War.
What is Pension Act
400
The strike that Eugene V. Debs organized in Chicago
What is the Pullman Strike
400
A social doctrine espoused by many wealthy businessmen during the Gilded Age that justified the growing income gap between rich and poor by arguing that God blessed the industrious with riches.
What is Gospel of Wealth
500
This party was formed, and called for a national income tax, or “cheaper money”.
What is The Populist Party
500
An umbrella organization for smaller independent unions founded and headed by labor organizer Samuel Gompers. It protected only skilled workers and had a limited membership of a half a million workers around the turn of the century. It fought businesses for higher wages, shorter workdays, and improvements in the work environment.
What is AFL (American Federation of Labor)
500
An amendment to a joint resolution of the United States Congress, enacted on April 19, 1898. According to the clause, the U.S. could not annex Cuba but only leave "control of the island to its people."
What is The Teller Amendment
500
The court case descision condemned blacks to more than another half century of second-class citizenship.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
500
An all-inclusive union founded in 1869 for skilled and unskilled American laborers, men and women, black and white. It replaced the National Labor Union. When the union was falsely implicated in the 1886 Haymarket Square Bombing in Chicago, it ended up losing thousands of its members.
What is Knights of Labor