9 weeks 2 industrialization Flashcards
AFL
skilled workers only, Samuel Gompers
IWW
Wobblies, heavy labor workers, violent strikes
Haymarket Square Riot
police fought with protesting workers in Chicago, turned people against labor movement
Pullman Strike
Pullman raised rents but not wages
John Rockefeller
Standard Oil monopolist
Andrew Carniege
immigrant, steel, Gospel of Wealth, donated money to libraries/universities
Samuel Gomper
leader of AFL
Eugene V. Debs
leader of American Railway Union, socialist
Philip Randoff
leader of International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, largest AA labor unions, helped organize March on Washington
Thomas Edison
inventor, light bulb, phonograph, 1000s of patents
Chinese Exclusion Act
1883,excluded Chinese laborers, example of nativism
Quota system/ Act
discriminated against southern and eastern Europe, set limits from each country
Knights of Labor
early labor union, allowed all workers to join regardless of race, gender, etc
Labor Unions
low wages, long hours, dangerous conditions
Jane Addams
established Hull house in chicago
New immigrants
southern and eastern Europe ex Italy, Poland, russia
Social Gospel
says that Christians have a duty to help the urban poor/immigrants
Laissez- Faire
“allow to do” government should stay out of business, now/low taxes/ regulations
J.P. Morgan
banker, brought up smaller businesses and merged them into larger
Bessemer Process
more efficient way to may steel, made it cheaper, stronger
Horizontal/ Vertical Integration
ways corporations grew, bought up smaller businesses, control entire production process from start to finish
Civil Service
appointed government jobs
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
made it illegal to form a trust/ monopoly that limits competition, difficult to enforce
Political Machine
organizations that controlled a city’s politics, corrupt, exchange services for votes
