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