Show:
Business/Econ
Ch 5
Who did it
Ch 6
Politics
100
The "free market" regulates prices and wages
What is laissez faire
100
These brought a variety of goods to one location
What are department stores
100
The maker of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
100
The most common form of mass transit before subways and trolleys
What are horsecars
100
"Unofficial" laws in the South that reinforced inequaility
What are Jim Crow Laws
200
When a company owns the resources, production, and sale of a good or service
What is vertical integration
200
Wages, shipping charges, and supplies
What are operating costs
200
Co-founder of Standard Oil
What is John D Rockefeller
200
Labor Unions feared these individuals because they might work for lower wages
Who are immigrants
200
An extremely influential political machine in New York City
What is Tammany Hall
300
A single company controls the entire market of a good or service
What is a monopoly
300
loans mortgages and taxes are examples of
What is fixed costs
300
Contributed to the expansion of the American steel industry
What is Andrew Carnegie
300
These helped reduce congestion on city streets
What are subways
300
The "boss" of a major political machine
Who is William Tweed
400
A company does this to break a Union by refusing to allow workers onto their property
What is a lockout
400
The two railroad companies responsible for the construction of the trans continental railroad
Who are Union Pacific and Central Pacific
400
Creator of electric illumination
What is Thomas Edison
400
Prices for crops fell because of this
What is new technology allowed for greater production of crops
400
Exchanged neccessities such as housing and jobs for votes
What are Political Machines
500
This is the total value of all goods and services a country produces
What is gross national product
500
These individuals had a generally negative view on unions
Who are business owners/employers
500
Opened Hull House in Chicago
Who is Jane Addams
500
Overturning this in the supreme court set the stage for legalized segregation
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875
500
Established "separate but equal"
What is Plessy V. Ferguson