Labor Unions Labor Supreme Court Big Business Inventors and Inventions
100
What is Higher wages, safer working conditions, shorter work hours
All labor unions had these three goals in common
100
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
100
What is Schenck vs U.S.
Freedom of speech is not absolute
100
What is Andrew Carnegie
Wrote the Gospel of Wealth praising the rich and discussing their responsibility as philanthropists.
100
What is The Bessemer Process - steel
This process allowed cities to expand upward, easing some of the strain from over population
200
What is The Wobbiles or Industrial Workers of the World
Radicals and anarchists who leaned toward socialism.
200
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.
200
What is Plessy vs Ferguson
Gave constitutional validity to segregation and led to the implementation of Jim Crow laws in the south.
200
What is social Darwinism
This theory was used to justify monopolies, the wealthy, and laissez faire government.
200
What is Move away from rivers because they now had a new source of power.
The invention of electricity allowed industries to
300
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.
300
What is Yellow Dog Contract
Many workers were required to sign one these stating they would not strike or join a labor union.
300
What is Brown vs Board of Education
Stated that separate is inherently unequal.
300
What is vertical integration
Process by which an industry buys out all of its suppliers.
300
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
400
What is Eugene V. Debs
He created the American Railway Union and was jailed for his assistance in the Pullman Strike.
400
What is The continued violence of the strikes and clashes between police and workers.
This ultimately led to unions losing membership and public support.
400
What is Munn vs Illinois
The states could regulate the Rail Road rates within their state.
400
What is Robber Baron
Negative term used to describe industrial moguls such as Vanderbilt and Morgan due to ruthless methods they used.
400
What is The telephone
Alexander Bell invented this, which revolutionized communication.
500
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.
500
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.
500
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.
500
What is Sherman Antitrust Act
This was created to break up trusts and monopolies because they limited competition and impeded growth in the economy.
500
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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