Gilded Age/Industrial Age Review

Negative view of business leaders as monopolies who  drove their competitors out of business.

Regulated railroads and other interstate businesses, prevented the showing favoritism in rates.

The AFL utilized what negotiation technique?

Harder to Americanize because they had many cultural differences such as language, & religion.

What was Coxey's Army?

Based on the ideas of Marx, believed in public ownership of industry.

Unions had a difficult time getting started in the United States because

Think fast! If anyone ever tells you Communism will work/is good what should you say to them?

Employers could pay the passage of immigrants & deduct the cost from their future wages.

Business leader who started Standard Oil and utilized horizontal consolidation?

What labor rally turned violent after an anarchist threw a bomb at Chicago police officers?

What is NOT a way government help business during the Gilded Age?

Radical political belief, they believe in no government or laws.

How did the sale of goods and marketing change in the turn of the century?

The following is an example of

Went through the immigrant processing centers of Ellis Island or Angel Island

Buying out all of your competitors in the same business is known as?

Giving away ones wealth in order to benefit society and future generations?

Investors risked only the amount of their investment & were not liable for any debts.

Labor union for mainly unskilled workers formed by Terence Powderly, declined after Haymarket?

Came to work in factories or mines during the post-Civil War Industrialization boom

Which of the following was NOT an example of turn of the century leisure activities & sports?

Occurred when Carnegie tried to remove the Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel workers

What socialist labor leader and gained notoriety for his involvement in the Pullman Strike?

Based on Darwin's theory of natural selection said wealthy were more highly evolved?

Formed by workers to improve wages and working conditions?

Democratic President elected twice but NOT consecutively.

Intentionally cut his prices to drive out his competitors.

The settlement house movement was started by Jane Addams to aid who?

Workers won most of their labor struggles, because the government supported their strikes.

What was NOT a popular sport in the Turn of the Century United States?

This Labor Union was founded by Samuel Gompers and represented Skilled Workers.

Refers to owning and controlling all the steps in production and distribution.

Easier for them to assimilate because many of them spoke English and some were Protestant

When share holders in individual corporations exchange shares of stocks for shares in a trust.

Regulated railroads and other interstate businesses, prevented the showing favoritism in rates.

What was a secret Organization of Irish Coal Miners that used terrorist tactics with their boss

President who signed the Sherman Anti-trust Act & spent the treasury surplus

Andrew Carnegie's essay/book on philanthropy?

Think fast! What business was Cornelius Vanderbilt?

Think fast! Who was NOT in the mail order catalog business?

Republican President assassinated by an unhappy office seeker who shouted, "I am a Stalwart."

Subdividing tasks to speed up production and to make workers more interchangeable

What does NOT reflects race relations in America from the late 1880's to the early 1900's.

Religion was mainly Roman Catholic, Jewish, or Eastern Orthodox

Jacob Rii's Book about the living conditions for the urban poor & immigrants in New York City

What refers to government taking an hands off approach towards regulating business?

This court case allowed states to regulate certain businesses such as RR within their borders.

Investment banker who started US Steel & General Electric.

Who is the pioneer of scientific management and helped many different industries to develop it?

What early union included Women in it's membership because most other unions did not allow them

Think fast! What business was Gustavus Swift?

What strike took place in Chicago after the business owner cut workers wages & raised rent

Which of the following statements does NOT reflect race relations in the turn of the century US

This chart is an example of what?

The first major strike that took place across the entire nation involving the B&O Railroad

From Western & Northern Europe

What is NOT true of Ellis Island

What was a problem with cities during the Gilded Age?

What is NOT true about Angle Island?

What political party wanted an income tax, gov ownership of RR, silver standard, & pro-farmers