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Chapter 19 The Incorporation of America Flashcards

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What did Herbert Spencer believe?(3)

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  • > competition was “the law of life” and resulted in the “survival of the fittest” in human society
  • > laissez faire
  • > financial traits are inheritted
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What was the idea behind rugged individuals?

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a true individual will solve his/her own problem and does not need the government to help

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What term did Mark Twain use to describe this time period?

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the Gilded Age

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What are Robber Barons

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industrial leaders who were considered to be “robbing” from the people for their own profits

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What are Industrial Statesmen?

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industrial leaders who is improving society

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What is horizontal integration?

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a monopoly of a single product for an entire market

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What is vertical integration?

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a monopoly of an entire production for a single product

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What are pools?

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3 or 4 members who divide a market so everyone makes a profit

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What are trusts?

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a board that is a combination of several companies that makes decisions for all companies to maximize profit.

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What are interlocking directorates?

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boards of directors of different companies having sufficient members in common to ensure that the companies involved are under the same control by buying stocks

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What is the original purpose of oil?

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lamp fuel

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What is Frederick W. Taylor the father of?

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Scientific Management

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What was the first U.S. nation wide union?

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National Labor Union

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Who was Terrance V. Powderly?

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the head of the Knights of Labor

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What did knights of labor promote?

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an 8 hour workday

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What was an important manufacturing innovation at the end of the nineteenth century??

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continuous production

17
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Between 1865 and 1900, the growth of big business in America was facilitated by what to things??

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horizontal integration and vertical combination

18
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To justify the wealth, many American businessmen embraced the ideology of what??

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social Darwinism

19
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The American Federation of Labor appealed to whom??

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skilled workers and concentrated on improving their wages

20
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What were the two most important urban transportation innovations between 1870 and 1900??

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street cars and elevated railroads

21
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Thorstein Veblen described the wealthy class’s extravagance as what??

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conspicuous consumption

22
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The famous educator who emphasized industrial training for African American students was who??

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Booker T. Washington

23
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Towards the end of the 1800’s what became the major form of popular entertainment?

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sports such as baseball

24
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Who is Fredrick Omsted?

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the father of American landscape architecture

25
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Who was James Duke and what did he do?

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a U.S. tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the introduction of modern cigarette manufacture

26
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Who was the main founder of the Standard Oil Company?

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John D. Rockefeller

27
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What did the Sherman Antitrust act do?

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prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive

28
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Who wrote the Gospel of Wealth?

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Andrew Carnegie

29
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What was the first federation of labor unions in the US?

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American Federation of Labor

30
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Who was H.H. Richardson?

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prominent American architect

31
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An important factor in the rapid development of industry in the United States during the last half of the 19c was?:

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the availability of capital for investment purposes.

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A long-range influence of Samuel Gompers on the American labor movement was his advocacy of?:

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non-involvement in party politics.

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J. P. Morgan monitored his competition by placing officers of his bank on the board of companies that he wanted to control. This method was known as a(n)?:

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interlocking directorate.

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