Ocs 10-11

Question 1

What was daily life like in 1865?

Answer 1

No indoor and electric lighting
Worked from the rising to the setting of the sun
Communications like mail were very slow

Question 2

How was the daily life transformed by the 1900s?

Answer 2

Growth in ideas and inventions
Investors and business leaders invested in inventions
US became envied by the rest of the world for industrial productivity and standard of living

Question 3

What did Thomas Edison do?

Answer 3

Invented the light bulb to replace oil lamps

Question 4

How did electricity change daily work life?

Answer 4

Many factories now used electricity

Question 5

What is a robber baron?

Answer 5

Business leaders who built their fortune by stealing front he public

Question 6

What were some things that robber barons did?

Answer 6

Drained the country of its natural resources, corrupted public officials to interpret laws in their favor, drove competition to ruins, paid meager wages, forcing workers to work in dangerous and unhealthy conditions.

Question 7

How did the transcontinental railroad get built?

Answer 7

The government funded it by giving money to the Union Pacific to build the railroad towards the west and the Central Pacific to build the railroad East.

Question 8

Who completed the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 8

Leland Stanford

Question 9

What made steel more affordable?

Answer 9

Henry Bessemer’s new process for making steel

Question 10

Who was Andrew Carnegie?

Answer 10

A man who started of very poor and then made millions in the steel business

Question 11

What is social Darwinism?

Answer 11

It’s is applying survival of the fittest to humans. Or think your race is superior to others

Question 12

What groups were apart of social Darwinism?

Answer 12

Poor, blacks, women, certain religions, and immigrants

Question 13

What is the Sherman Antitrust Act and was it enforced?

Answer 13

Aimed to combat restraint of trade or commerce caused by trusts, ineffective because it was not enforced

Question 14

What was Rockefeller’s industry?

Answer 14

Oil

Question 15

What was Vanderbilt’s industry?

Answer 15

Railroads

Question 16

What were some negative effects of industrialization?

Answer 16

Rich became richer
Struggle for a decent standard of living
Complaints are amen directly to the employers

Question 17

What is socialism?

Answer 17

An economic and social philosophy that advocates collective or government ownership of factories and property

Question 18

How did employers feel about unions?

Answer 18

They disliked and feared them

Question 19

What did employers do to try to stop the unions?

Answer 19

Forbidding Union meetings
Firing union organizers
Forced employees to sign a yellow dog contract that exacted a promise never join a union or strike

Question 20

What were the Knights of labor and who were included?

Answer 20

An organization meant to protect its workers from employer retaliation
EVERYONE WAS INCLUDED even blacks and women

Question 21

What did the Knights of labor want?

Answer 21

Laws to protect workers safety and well being

Question 22

What was the American Federation of Labor and who was apart of it?

Answer 22

Group that wanted to protect better wages, hours, and working conditions, as well as collective bargaining. Samuel Gompers and skilled craftsman only.

Question 23

What is the Haymarket?

Answer 23

A strike that Occurred in response to Chicago police killing and wounding several workers the day before

Question 24

What is the Homestead?

Answer 24

A strike where steel workers were locked out of the mill for not accepting new work production demands - Carnegie steel company

Question 25

What is the Pullman?

Answer 25

A railroad strike because Pullman cut wages by 40% - made unions viewed poorly