Shady people from the Gilded Age
Owned Standard Oil
Used by citizens to propose a new law
What is the Initiative?
No government interference
What is laissez-faire?
Guglielmo Marconi
What is the radio?
The first labor union
What is the Knights of Labor?
Adult men were given 160 acres; were required to build a home and farm the land; ownership after 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
Steel Monopoly
Who is Carnegie?
Used to collecct votes on a proposal or law
What is a Referendum?
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
Samuel Morse
What is the telegraph?
Steelworkers protested Carnegie's treatment of workers
What is the Homestead Act?
Reason young Native Americans were sent to special schools
What is assimilation?
Tamany Hall political manipulator
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
Used to remove a public official from office
What is the Recall?
Law to regulate the railroad companies
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Alexander Graham Bell
What is the telephone?
Massive railroad strike in 1894
What is the Pullman Strike?
This was finished in 1869 at Promontory, Utah
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Railroad titan
Who is Vanderbilt?
Process in which a company buy out all of the suppliers
What is vertical integration?
Law that was supposed to prevent railroad monopolies, but not enforced at first
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Henry Ford
What is the assembly line?
A worker called in by an employer to replace strikers
What is a scab?
Broke up reservations and tribal lands by granting lands to individual Native Americans
What is the Dawes Act?
President who fought the huge trusts of the Robber Barons
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Process in which a company buys out or merges with all competing companies
What is horizontal consolidation?
What is the free enterprise system (also known as capitalism)?
Thomas Edison
What is the incandescent light bulb?
8-hour days, 5-day work week, safe working conditions
What are reforms won by labor unions?
The first significant law restricting immigration into the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?