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What is Higher wages, safer working conditions, shorter work hours
All labor unions had these three goals in common
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What is Pullman created a town for his workers. Controlled all prices and wages. Cut wages, did not cut prices. Workers went on strike.
The Pullman Company
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What is Schenck vs U.S.
Freedom of speech is not absolute
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What is Andrew Carnegie
Wrote the Gospel of Wealth praising the rich and discussing their responsibility as philanthropists.
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What is The Bessemer Process - steel
This process allowed cities to expand upward, easing some of the strain from over population
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What is The Wobbiles or Industrial Workers of the World
Radicals and anarchists who leaned toward socialism.
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What is The Haymarket Affair
During this protest against police brutatlity a bomb was thrown killing several police officers. Without proof, 8 radical union members were charged, 4 of them executed.
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What is Plessy vs Ferguson
Gave constitutional validity to segregation and led to the implementation of Jim Crow laws in the south.
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What is social Darwinism
This theory was used to justify monopolies, the wealthy, and laissez faire government.
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What is Move away from rivers because they now had a new source of power.
The invention of electricity allowed industries to
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What is The Knights of Labor
This labor union was open to anyone regardless of race, gender, or degree of skill. They saw strikes as a last resort preferring arbitration.
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What is Yellow Dog Contract
Many workers were required to sign one these stating they would not strike or join a labor union.
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What is Brown vs Board of Education
Stated that separate is inherently unequal.
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What is vertical integration
Process by which an industry buys out all of its suppliers.
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What is Expansion in one industry led to expansion in other and our government was strongly invested in these industries.
The expansion of industry, such as railroads, was encouraged because
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What is Eugene V. Debs
He created the American Railway Union and was jailed for his assistance in the Pullman Strike.
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What is The continued violence of the strikes and clashes between police and workers.
This ultimately led to unions losing membership and public support.
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What is Munn vs Illinois
The states could regulate the Rail Road rates within their state.
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What is Robber Baron
Negative term used to describe industrial moguls such as Vanderbilt and Morgan due to ruthless methods they used.
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What is The telephone
Alexander Bell invented this, which revolutionized communication.
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What is American Federation of Labor
This craft union focused on collective bargaining and used strikes as a major tactic. The President was Samuel Gompers.
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What is The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
146 women were locked in a tenement factory and forced to jump to their deaths when the building caught fire ultimately resulting in fire safety regulation.
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What is The Interstate Commerce Act / Interstate Commerce Commission
Though initially ineffective, this gave the Federal government the authority to regulate interstate and international trade.
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What is Sherman Antitrust Act
This was created to break up trusts and monopolies because they limited competition and impeded growth in the economy.
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What is Westinghouse and Tesla
This inventor was credited with making electricity safer, but he actually purchased the patent from another inventor. Name both.
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