Big Business
The name of John Rockefeller's business was...
Standard Oil
The name of Andrew Carnegie's business was...
US Steel Corporation
The word for a country and underdeveloped area is...
Rural
Name one reasons why workers unionized at this time
Low pay, dangerous working conditions, company money, pay cuts, long work hours, any other acceptable answer
This established a permanent income tax
Sixteenth Amendment
This is the term for an enormous business that takes advantage of consumers with high prices and massive profits
The idea that the government should not intervene in the economy
Laissez Faire
This is the term for a dirty, overcrowded apartment common for the Gilded Age
Tenement
This union dissolved after the disastrous Haymarket Riot
Knights of Labor
Woman Suffrage
Nineteenth Amendment
This Captain of Industry focused on investment banking and even bailed out the bankrupt railroad industry
J.P. Morgan
Steel
This man said: "I don't give a straw for newspaper articles, most of my constituents can't read... but they can't help seeing those darned pictures"
Boss Tweed
This man was the leader of the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Established temperance
This is a situation when a businessman owns everything along the production line in order to cut costs in their business
Vertical Integration
This is the term for making the tariff purposefully high to protect American goods from foreign competition
Protective Tariff
This is the term for a home in which immigrants could live to learn American ways of life and assimilate more easily
Settlement House
This private police force was called in several times to break strikes or infiltrate unions in secret
Pinkerton Detective Agency
A yes or no vote on a single issue
Referendum
These two Robber Barons swindled consumers and investors out of millions while building the Erie Railway
Gould and Fiske
Thomas Edison electrocuted this animal in order to prove his electric current was stronger than the competing current
I am reading a book on this president--he is largely forgotten except for his assassination over patronage issues
Garfield
In this disastrous strike, Henry Frick transformed the plant into a battle zone where many deaths occurred
Carnegie Homestead Strike
This established the direct election of US senators
Seventeenth Amendment