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