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Social Studies Vocab Big Business, Immigration, and Labor
Social Studies Vocab Big Business, Immigration, and Labor
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Test your knowledge of all the key terms we learned in class about big business.
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Inexpensive, easier way to make steel developed by British inventor Henry Bessemer in the 1850s
Vanderbilt Process
Carnegie Process
Bessemer Process
Rockefeller Process
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Owners close the business and not let workers come in (as to avoid a strike)
Lock in
Lock down
Strike prevention
Lockout
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(1886) A bomb exploded during a labor protest held in Chicago, killing several police officers
Boycotting
Strike
Protesting
Haymarket Riot
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Strike by workers at Pullman’s Palace Car Company until courts ordered workers to get to work
Pullman Strike
Homestead Strike
Unions
Homestead Act
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Organizations that helped immigrants in case of sickness, unemployment, and death
Hospitals
Unions
Benevolent Societies
Unions
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Unions leaders negotiate for better wages and working conditions on behalf of all workers
Captains of Industry
Robber Barons
Collective Bargaining
Unions
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A share of a company’s profits
Monopoly
Dividends
Share
Stock
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Money or property owned or used in business
Shares
Capital
Divedends
Stocks
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A period of explosive growth in manufacturingand industry in the late 1800s
Second Industrial Revolution
World War I
First Industrial Revolution
Technological Revolution
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Extreme drop in economic activities, high unemployment
Crash
Depression
Fall
Depriciation
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Strike at Carnegie’s Homestead Steel factory that ended in war between workers and Pinkertons
Homestead act
Homestead strike
Pullman Strike
Carnegie's Steel factory strike
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Public transportation
Cars
Mass transit
Horses
Bus
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One of the first large labor unions in the United States organized by Samuel Gompers
Department of Labor
The union
American Federation of Labor
Companies
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Legal arrangement grouping several companies under board of directors to eliminate competition
Owners
Trust
Luck
Shares
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Part ownership of a public company
Capital
Monopoly
Ownership
Share of stock
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Ownership of businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process
Business Integration
Vertical Integration
Manufacturing Co-ownership
Horizontal Integration
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Immigrants who came after the 1880’s; most were from southern and eastern Europe
Old Immigrants
New Immigrants
Eurpoeans
Immigration
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People who want to abolish all forms of government
Government Workers
Abolitionists
Anarchists
Archeologists
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Large retail stores that first appeared in cities in the late 1800s
Drug stores
Supermarket
Walgreens
Department Stores
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Ownership of all businesses in a particular field
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Manufacturing Co-owner
Business Integration
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US citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants
Immigrants
Nativists
Unions
Business ownes
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Sole economic control of a business or product
Free enterprise
Monopoly
King
Business
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A combining of two or more companies into one
Free enterprise
Merger
Joining
Laissez-faire
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Almost always part of a strike.
Fights
Unions
Chants
Pickets
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Centers that arose in the late 1800s to offer education, recreation, and social activities
Appartments
YMCA
Schools
Settlement Houses
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Settlement house founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in Chicago in 1889
J and E House
Hull house
Settlement house
A and S house
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Residential neighborhoods outside a city
Suburbs
Rural area
Cities
Urban areas
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Exclusive right to manufacture or sell aninvention
Trademark
Patent
Exclusives
Copyright
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(1890) law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Vanderbilt Anti Trust Act
Rockefeller Anti Trust Act
Carnegie Anti Trust Act
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Law preventing Chinese people from entering the country
Immigration Act
World War II
World War I
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Workers in a company must belong to a union
Union-welcome job
Closed shop
Yellowdog Contract
Open shop
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Area in a ship’s lower level that was less expensive
Steerage
Lower class
Upper class
Middle class
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Groups formed by workers to improve working conditions
Monopolies
Immigrants
Labor unions
Captains of Trade
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Large union for skilled and unskilled workers
Steel Unions
Strikes
AFL-CIO
American Union
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Name on a list to not work anywhere! No one will hire you
Unwanted
Blacklist
Fired
Banned
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Bonus payment
Subsidy
Pension
Paycheck
Bonus
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1st labor union in the US Organized in 1869 that had workers of many races, genders, and skills
Control of Labor
Kings of Labor
Knights of Labor
Queens of Labor
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Policy that the government should not interfere with or place controls on businesses
Republic
Democracy
Free enterprise
Laissez-faire
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Strike breakers who crossed the picket line and went against the union
Liars
Unloyal
Scabs
Traitors
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Companies that sell shares of ownership, called stocks, to investors in order to raise money
Co-owner
Incorporated
Corporations
Companies
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A belief that if you work hard you will get a reward, and if you fail, its your own fault
Social standards
Work for reward system
Unions
Social Darwinism
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Leisure and cultural activities shared bylarge numbers of people
Religion
Gender
Race
Mass culture
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Refusal to work because of disagreements with unionwages and working conditions
Strike
Boycott
Union
Protest
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People refuse to deal with a group to force a change
Boycott
Protest
Union
Strike
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A court order that tells people what to do
Ticket
Request
Injunction
Ruling
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System in which business operate free from government involvement
Laissez-Faire
Free Enterprise
Democracy
Equal Rights
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Immigrants who came to the United Statesbefore the 1880’s; most were from northern Europe
Europeans
New Immigrants
Old immigrants
Immigration
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Poorly built, over crowded housing wheremany immigrants lived
Camps
Longhouses
Tenements
Houses
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A writing style that concentrates on presenting accurate images of American society
Biography
Realism
Fiction
Realistic fiction
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To get a job workers agree not to join a union
Merger Agreement
Working papers
Yellowdog Contract
Union-free Contract
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Private detectives hired by Henry Frick to break the power of the union by force
Cia
FBI
Police
Pinkerton's
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People who organize new businesses
Entrepreneurs
Owners
CEOs
Leaders
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Organization formed in 1894 by nativists who wanted to reduce immigration;
Business owners
Immigration restriction League
Unions
Monopolies
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Legal agreement (written) between worker and employers on working conditions, wage and benefits
Contracts
Boycotts
Unions
Mergers
