Labor
a derogatory term for a worker who accepts employment or replaces a union worker during a strike.
what is a scab
The industrialist who brought the Bessemer process to America.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Railroad completed in 1869 that connected the Pacific to East Coast of the U.S.
Transcontinental Railroad
A time when a thin layer of prosperity covered the poverty and corruption that existed in society.
What is the Gilded Age?
Developed a code for the telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse?
a union that welcomed all skilled and unskilled workers, blacks, and women?
What are the Knights of Labor?
He established the Standard Oil Company
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
An attempt to restore business competition and a self-regulating economy?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The concept stating that those who are “fit” in business become rich, those who aren’t, are meant to be poor?
What is Social Darwinism?
The inventor who developed the idea of a central electric power station?
Who is Thomas Edison?
The leader and founder of the American Federation of Labor(AFL)
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Several companies managed as a single unit
What is a Trust?
Morse Code was invented in this year.
What is 1844?
He established the American Telephone and Telegraph Company?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Patented a method of power generation, transmission and distribution of alternating current (AC) electricity?
Who is Nikola Tesla?
When workers negotiate as a group with their employers for better wages and working conditions?
what is collective bargaining
The name given to powerful industrialists by their critics
what is a robber baron?
An early video projector invented in the Gilded Age.
What was the Vitascope?
Wrote Children of the Poor exposing the effects of long hours and poor working conditions on child workers.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Invented air brakes for railroad cars, making trains safer and faster?
Who is George Westinghouse?
Who was the leader of the American Railroad Union and the Pullman Strike of 1894?
Eugene V. Debs
an agreement between an employer and employee stating that the worker would not join a labor union?
what was a yellow dog contracts?
a license issued to bestow exclusive rights to a product or process
What is a patent?
The belief that the rich have a responsibility to spend their money in order to benefit the greater good?
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
an inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel?
what is the Bessemer method?