APUSH CH 17/18 JEOPARDY Flashcards
Neither owners nor workers, they gathered and organized information for others
Managers
Railroads popularized this form of business organization
Corporations
Combining related business firms, from primary processing of resources to final production into one large firm
Vertical integration
He made them moving assembly line popular
Henry ford
One method of organizing our horizontally integrated monopoly, created by John Rockefeller
Trust or holding company
Union of skilled and unskilled, labor and ownership, blacks and whites
Knights of Labor
Violent clash with Carnegie steel, ended when the PA national guard was called out
Homestead strike
The great labor campaign of 1886 was this change in working conditions
8 hour workday
Violent event that turned much of the US against the organized labor movement
Haymarket Riot
Organizer of the AFL
Samuel Gompers
Multi story apartment building often associated with poverty
Tenement
1890s labor class in Chicago led by Eugene Debs in the national Railway Union
Pullman Strike
Organized by Florence Kelly to pressure menu facture’s to provide better wages and working conditions
National consumers league
Two advantages of a corporation
Sell stock, limited liability
Main reason epidemic disease was common in the cities
Poor sanitation, sewage in drinking water
One city that experienced an enormous fire in the gilded age
Boston, Chicago
His sensational photos exposed the life of the poor in cities but did l little to make their lives better
Jacob Riis
Vent that caused southern secession
Lincoln’s election
Two outstanding union generals
Grant, Sherman
Key part of this congressional reconstruction was this constitutional act to protect black rights
14th amendment
Failed attempt to reconcile north and south in the winter of 1862/1861
Crittenden Compromise
Two radical leaders of congressional reconstruction
Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens
Believe that the rich represented the survival of the fittest
Social darwinism
Collective ownership of the means of production
Socialism
Carnegie’s believe that wealth is a blessing and a duty to improve society
Gospel of Wealth
His novel celebrated the idea of expanding opportunity although he also understood the role of luck and chance
Horatio Alger
His single land tax was enormously popular in the Gilded Age
henry george
He ruthlessly dominated the petroleum refining business and was one of the business tycoon that consolidated
John Rockefeller
He was responsible for the development of Central Park in New York City
Frederick Law Olmstead
He was responsible for the tremendous growth of the knights of labor in the 1880s
T Powderly
He popularized “scientific management” or “dividing a complex task into simpler steps
Frederick Taylor
His book, looking backward, envisioned a cooperative utopia for the US
Edward Bellamy
Key economic issue that divided Democrats and Whigs in the 1830s
The national bank
Economic crisis that killed Van Buren’s reelection
Panic of 1837
Term for expanding transportation, growing banking system, and very beginnings of industrial growth in the 1820s and 1830s
The market revolution
Jackson’s policy requiring cash to buy government owned land
Specie circular
Development of this allowed middle class and working class women to developed a distinctive style of dress
Ready-made clothing
Name for monopoly centered around telephone technology
Bell System
New immigrants were from this part of Europe
Southern or eastern
His ideas transformed biology and social science and challenged religion
Charles darwin
1st amusement park, developed in New York City
Coney Island
During the Gilded Age, it became a big spectator sport, and saw the first professional leagues organized
Baseball
This law promoted universities devoted to practical scientific research
Morrill Land Grant Act
He transformed filmmaking with close-ups, fade outs, techniques used today
DW Griffith
Painting style that emphasize the ugly realities of life
Ashcan school
