unit 17-18

Question 0

knights of labor (3)

Answer 0

• led by Powderly
• didn’t use strikes, used the political route
• immediate goals was to raise wages

Question 1

Molly Maguire’s (4)

Answer 1

• militant labor organization
• of PA miners
• mostly Catholic
• accused of violence and murders of managers

Question 2

AFL (6)

Answer 2

• labor union started by strasser, Maguire’s, and Gompers
• made up of skilled craftsmen
• their philosophy was moderation
• avoid government
• and the courts
• use strikes only when necessary

Question 3

American railway union (3)

Answer 3

• led by Eugene debs
• Pullman workers joined in 1893 when demand for Pullman cars decreased
• people were laid off and wages cut

Question 4

robber baron (3)

Answer 4

• name given to industrialists
• got rich
• from commerce bribery

Question 5

Carnegie (5)

Answer 5

• self made man
• pioneered vertical/horizontal integration
• steel company
• Scottish immigrant
• philanthropist

Question 6

JP Morgan (3)

Answer 6

• merged many indep companies into one
• convinced rivals that if they joined
• they’d get rich though the new stock

Question 7

interstate commerce act (4)

Answer 7

• created by govt
• to regulate railroads
• Supreme Court leased the laws power by saying that it could only regulate existing rates
• and not future ones

Question 8

munn v Illinois (4)

Answer 8

• Supreme Court ruled that on behalf of the public interest
• allowed state
• to set rates
• on grain storage elevators

Question 9

granger laws (5)

Answer 9

• laws passed in 1860s
• to regulate railroad
• by prohibiting discrimination
• rebates
• establish max rates

Question 10

wabash case (4)

Answer 10

• ruled that congress
• had authority
• to regulate interstate trade
• effected regulation of railroads

Question 11

interstate commerce commission (4)

Answer 11

• created to investigate railroads
• against railroads
• lacked power
• couldn’t set rates on railroads