there is no such thing as a stupid question, except when i dont know the answer.
100
communities near workplaces where housing was owned by the business and rented out to employees
What is a company town?
100
negotiating as a group for higher wages or better working conditions
What is collective bargaining?
100
A form of group ownership in which a number of people share the ownership of a business and whose personal property is protected should the business fail.
What is a corporation
100
complete control of a product or service.
What is a monopoly
100
an inventor who received more than 1000 patents for new inventions.
who is Thomas Edison
200
a labor union that included workers of any trade, skilled or unskilled
What is the Knights of Labor
200
an economic and political philosophy that favors public, instead of private, control of property and income
What is socialism
200
belief that wealth is a measure of a persons value and that those that had the most money were the most "fit"
What is Social Darwinism
200
A steel tycoon who used vertical integration to increase his power.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
A government organization set up to oversee railroad operations.
What is the ICC
300
a loose organization of skilled workers from many unions devoted to specific crafts or trades
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
300
an 1892 Pennsylvania steelworkers’ strike that resulted in violence between company police and strikers
What is Homestead Strike
300
an arrangement in which businesses making the same product agree to limit production to keep prices high.
What is a cartel.
300
an oil tycoon who made deals with railroads to increase his profits
who is John D Rockefeller
300
a process for purifying iron resulting in strong light weight steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
400
small, hot, dark, and dirty workhouses
What is a sweatshop?
400
a nationwide strike in 1894 of rail workers that halted railroads and mail delivery
What is the Pullman strike?
400
a bill passed in 1890 which outlawed any trust that operated in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
400
The practice of gaining control of many businesses that make up all phases of a products development.
What is vertical integration
400
Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally
What are protective tariffs?
500
a poor English immigrant who formed the AFL, a skilled workers union, in 1886
Who is Samuel Gompers.
500
a labor protest in Chicago in 1886 that ended in dozens of deaths when someone threw a bomb
What is the Haymarket Riot?
500
leader of the American Railway Union who eventually became a Socialist
Who is Eugene Debs?
500
the leader of the Knights of Labor beginning in 1881 who encouraged boycotts and negotiations with employers
Who is Terrance Powderly
500
A system of consolidating many firms in the same business to lower production costs.