Triumph of Industry

What innovation lengthened the work day and play time?

This suggested that those who had great wealth were entitled to it.

A system in which businesses operate under minimal government regulation

labor union of skilled workers from small craft unions

Labor union that included all workers of any trade

Which labor leader began the American Federation of Labor?

How did the federal government support employers during labor unrest?

A tax that makes imported goods more costly than those made locally

a person who invests money in a product or enterprise to make a profit

workers negotiating as a group for better wages and working conditions

The ICC was formed to do what?

A corporation that gains complete control of a product or service

A method for purifying iron, resulting in strong, lightweight steel.

In which system does one company control the businesses that develop the product?

When a number of people share the ownership of a business.

Leader of the American Railway Union (ARU) and cofounder of IWW.

A steel tycoon that established libraries in part to help the disadvantaged rise in society.

Inventor of the light bulb

This outlawed any trust that operated "in restraint of trade."

a nationwide strike of railway workers in 1894

Why did some people believe big business leaders were "Captains of Industry"?

Corporations had the important advantage of what?

A system for turning out large numbers of products quickly and inexpensively

In the late 1800's, workers tolerated poor wages because they...

Which industry MOST spurred economic growth and innovation in related industries?

What was the result of the Haymarket Riot?

Capitalism helped industrialization by doing what?

An oil tycoon who used horizontal integration to increase profits.

farms becoming mechanized resulted in...

Economic and political philosophy favoring public control of property and income