Chapter 24

Question 1

Union Pacific railroad

Answer 1

Go west from Omaha Nebraska

Question 2

Central pacific

Answer 2

Started in Sacramento and went through Sierra Nevada

Backed by Leland Stanford and Collis Huntington

Question 3

Northern pacific

Answer 3

Lake Superior –> puget sound

Question 4

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe

Answer 4

Through sw deserts to California

Question 5

Southern pacific

Answer 5

New Orleans to San Francisco

Question 6

Great northern

Answer 6

Duluth to Seattle

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Question 7

Stock watering

Answer 7

Railroad stock promoters inflated their claims about a given lines assets and profitability and sold stocks and bonds in excess of the railroads actual value.
Railroad managers forced to charge high rates and wage battles in order to pay off exaggerated financial obligation

Question 8

Pool

Answer 8

An agreement to divide the business in a given area and share the profits

Question 9

Wabash case

Answer 9

Decreed individual states had no power to regulate interstate commerce
Federal government needs to fix railroad monopoly

Question 10

Interstate commerce act

Answer 10

Prohibited rebates and pools
required the railroads to publish their rates openly
Forbade unfair discrimination against shippers
Outlawed charging more for a short haul than for a long one over the same line
Set up interstate commerce commission

Question 11

Vertical integration

Answer 11

Bought companies for all the steps needed to make product

Question 12

Horizontal integration

Answer 12

Buying out all the competitors

Question 13

William Kelley

Answer 13

Discovered Bessemer process

Question 14

Sherman anti trust act

Answer 14

Forbade combinations in restraint of trade w/out distinction of good trusts and bad trusts
Ineffective because contained so many loopholes

Question 15

James Buchanan duke

Answer 15

Tobacco industry

Question 16

Pittsburg plus pricing system

Answer 16

Iron and coal in Alabama should have given manufacturers competitive edge but steel lords in pittsburgh brought pressure to bear on compliant railroads
Steel still charged fictional fee if it shipped from Pittsburgh

Question 17

National labor union

Answer 17

Lasted 6 years
Skilled and unskilled
Excluded Chinese
Only nominal efforts to include blacks and women

Question 18

Colored national labor union

Answer 18

Support from Republican Party and racism kept me from working with the national labor union

Question 19

Knights of labor

Answer 19

After the national labor union defunct
Included all workers except gamblers, etc
Led th hay market square episode, but lost

Question 20

Terence v Powderly

Answer 20

Knights successful strike against goulds wabash railroad in 1885

Question 21

American federation of labor

Answer 21

Led by Samuel Gompers
Only for skilled workers
Association of self governed national unions that kept independence with AFL unifying
No individuals could join