Kurrass US Ch.5-6 TEST Review

Controversy between an employer & its employees regarding terms to be negotiated in bargaining

Inventor of the light bulb, power plants, phonograph, and moving pictures.

Term that describes the promotion of the fair market by regulatinganti-competitive practices.

Plan that provided free or low cost land to settlers who were willing to farm it for 5 years.

The production of goods or services within the economy is called what?

Term used to describe the large scale introduction of manufacturing.

Company involved in a scandal in which they overcharged for the production of railroad lines

The two 19th century inventions that made instant communication over long distances possible.

Law that bought reservation land from Native Americans in order to assimilate them was called

Founder of the American Federal of Labor, a union for only skilled workers.

Place where in 1890 over 200 Sioux were massacred ending the Indian wars.

In order to increase crop prices and make it easier to repay loans, farmers wanted what?

Settlers in the Oklahoma land rush who snuck in before the lands were open.

Affiliation of employed wage and salary workers that began in the late 19th century

The first of the labor unions that sought to unify and assist workers

Populist and Democratic candidate for President who made the "Cross of Gold" speech.

1890 law that promoted fair competition among businesses & restricted monopolies.

Gov't program giving land to states in order to build universities for agricultural students.

The belief that government should not interfere with the practices of big business.

Transcontinental Railroad and the Homestead Act led to the settlement of what are in the US?

The concept that only the fittest businesses & people survive & thrive in a capitalist economy.

Government law designed to regulate railroad practices and keep rates "reasonable and just"

Large business corporations with signficant or complete market control and power.

Founder of the largest steel manufacturing plant in the world in Pittsburgh

7th Cavalry commander killed at the Little Big Horn by the Sioux Indians.

The Bessemer Process was a technological development in what major industry?

Unions like the American Federation of Labor sought to help workers by focusing on what?

Cowboys were taught how to herd and drive cattle by Vaqueros from where?

The Populist position on government control was what?

The transportation development that made the settlement of the American west possible.

Business billionaire whose Standard Oil company created a near monopoly on oil refining.

Form of business control that involved taking over other companies in the same industry.