Big Business and Industrialization
Term describing the economic system of minimal government regulation
Laissez-Faire
First major national labor union in the USA
Knights of Labor
Term for individuals who disliked immigrants.
Nativists
First federal law regulating railroads
Interstate Commerce Act
Organization that helped farmers fight the railroad abuses
Grange Movement
Business practice in which a company controls every step of production.
Vertical Integration
Union led by Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Processing center for immigrants entering through New York Harbor.
Ellis Island
1890 law that was aimed at breaking up monopolies.
Sherman Antitrust Act.
Political party formed in the 1890s to represent farmers and workers
Industrialist associated with steel.
Andrew Carnegie
Violent 1892 strike that involved Carnegie Steel.
Homestead Strike
In the deep south segregation increased especially in regards to voting rights for emancipated men. What restrictions were placed on these individuals to deter them from voting.
1. Residency requirement;
2. Could not be convicted of any crimes
3. poll tax
4. literacy test (reading the Constitution)
Practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs.
patronage (spoils system)
Economic condition caused by shrinking the money supply.
Deflation
Strategy used by Rockefeller to eliminate competition.
Horizontal Integration
1894 strike broken by federal troops under President Cleveland.
Pullman Strike
Who were the redeemers?
Post reconstruction democrats in the south who were in office to promote white supremacy.
Supreme Court ruling that stated the Federal government is able to use an injunction to stop strikes to allow the US mail to continue its service.
In Re Debs (after the Pullman Strike)
Populist demand for the unlimited coinage of this metal
silver
Argument used by these individuals to defend wealth inequality and survival of the fittest.
Social Darwinism
The reason labor unions struggled to gain widespread public support.
Fear of radicalism, violence or government opposition.
The case that ruled the following, "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
Methods used by employers to stop strikes. Two were used by the Federal government.
lockouts
Blacklist
Yellow-dog contract (make you not join the union)
State militia
Court injunctions
This election marked the decline of the populist party
Election of 1896