2/2 Class

Question 1

laissez faire

Answer 1

A. the Intellectuals
B. The Courts(Laissez Faire Constitutionalism)
C. Zunz’s Managers?

Question 2

social darwinism

Answer 2

helping the poor backfires,
do not interfere with the survival of the fittest
Andrew Carnegie

Question 3

courts

Answer 3

try to set laws that support Laissez Faire laws
Munn v Illinois
ok for states to regulate business “clothed” with a public interest
Justice Stephen J. Field’s Dissent: regulation violates due process
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Co. V Illinois (1886)
killed state regulation of railroad states
Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific Railroad (1886)
companies are people under the 14th amendment
Lochner v New York
state can not set limits of working hours
these supported Laissez Faire

Question 4

14th amendmend

Answer 4

due process amendment

Question 5

Zunz’s Managers

Answer 5

managers hire people, decide what they are paid
they were involved in planning these communities, the managers have adopted the big business way of doing things. They helped build this companies and they support them.

Question 6

Chandlers

Answer 6

invisible hand where corporations grew and used vertical integration to manage employees
middle managers were the ones who moved this invisible hand along

Question 7

critics of laissez Faire

Answer 7

politicians
intellectuals
Labor movement
Knights of Labor

Question 8

Henry George progress and poverty

Answer 8

articulated idea that it is unfair how much wealth is concentrated in land, ownership of land and how you can get money from land
argued for the single tax on property

Question 9

Richard Ely and the Founders of the AHA

Answer 9

half of the signers were pastors
German Phd’s
rejected Laissez Faire

Question 10

knights of labor

Answer 10

radical group,
opposed wage system
faded after 1886

Question 11

socialism

Answer 11

economic system in which the people/state own the means of production
is not social democracy,

Question 12

Haymarket Riot

Answer 12

scared people

Question 13

AFL

Answer 13

American federation of labor: conservative union
craft unions
rejected radical goals in pursuit of “pure and simply unionism”
voluntarism(rejected labor legislation)
stressed cooperation within parameters of modern capitalism and rejected socialism
cold shoulder to African Americans and women
Promoted “family wage”
gained many members after depression

Question 14

homestead strike

Answer 14

carnegie steel co.
pinkertons
henry clay frick
state militia

Question 15

George Pullman’s Company Town

Answer 15

towns built around companies

Question 16

eugene debs

Answer 16

future leader of the american socialist party

head of the railway union

Question 17

why no socialism in the US

Answer 17

Warner Sombart
Roast beef and apple pie…
Europeans did not enjoy roast beef and apple pie like we do