Industry
Industry leaders; 1%ers; monopolistic tendencies; exploited workers
What are robber barons?
Early labor union; included women; united skilled and unskilled workers
What is/who are the Knights of Labor?
Iowans who pledged never to employ or vote for a Roman Catholic
What is the American Protective Association?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The year the American Civil War ended
What is 1865?
Theory used to defend social and economic hierarchies
What is Social Darwinism?
He wrote a famous novel exposing the horrors of the meatpacking industry in Chicago
Who was Upton Sinclair?
A philosophy opposed to immigration and the perceived threats they brought to American society
What is nativism?
He wrote, "If the black man and the yellow man each desire to remain with us, occupying the sphere in life for which God Almighty intended each, let them do so. If not content with that, then let them go elsewhere."
Who is Frank Clark?
Approximately 24,000 miles; an invisible line
What is the equator?
State militias deployed; infrastructure and property destroyed; federal troops involved; foreshadowed decades of labor conflict
What is the Great Railroad Strike (of 1877)?
Alternative union to Knights of Labor; conservative; skilled workers only
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Barred “yellow hordes” from entering the country for ten years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Established that racial segregation laws did not necessarily violate the U.S. Constitution
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Most points in NBA history; considered by some to be the GOAT
Who is LeBron James?
Law promoting competition by prohibiting monopolies
What is the Sherman Antitrust act?
Bad P.R. for labor unions; policemen killed; 1886
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Activist who addressed poverty, disease, and prejudice through "social settlements"
Who is Jane Addams?
Forced voters to spend money in order to participate in elections; used in the Jim Crow South
What is a poll tax?
2024 or 2025 winner for Best Picture
What is Oppenheimer or Anora?
Scientific management; increased output
What is Taylorism?
Pennsylvania Carnegie steel mill; state militia called in; union destroyed
What is the Homestead Strike?
Nickname for journalists who exposed economic exploitation, political corruption, etc.
Who are muckrakers?
Born in Massachusetts; earned PhD from Harvard
Who is WEB DuBois?
The year in which Walter Payton retired from professional football
What is 1987?