Unit 5 More Cards

Question 1

Edwin Drake

Answer 1

Steam powered drill- First successful oil well drilled in Titusville, Pensilvania

Question 2

Proprietorship/Partnership

Answer 2

Early 1800s businesses owned by single person/family, personally responsible for obligations and debts

Question 3

Laissez-Faire

Answer 3

“Leave it be”, economic policy of gov’t which stresses no interference in business

Question 4

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Answer 4

outlawed any trust that (outlawed monopolistic business practices) “restrained trade and commerce among the states”, difficult to enforce, court decisions usually favored business

Question 5

Knights of Labor

Answer 5

All races, genders, unskilled workers; promoted equal pay for all; strike as last resort- Terrance Powderly.

Question 6

American Federation of Labor

Answer 6

Organized by Samuel Gompers; United skilled craft unions, collective bargaining- strikes used as tactic to create change.

Question 7

American Railway Union

Answer 7

Eugene Debs; all workers in one industry regardless of job type (in terre haute, Indiana)

Question 8

Haymarket Sqaure Riot

Answer 8

Chicago; protest of McCormick reaper works employees; bomb blast kills policemen. 8 labor leaders tried and convicted without evidence; public begins to view labor movement and unions as violent

Question 9

Homestead Mill Strike

Answer 9

Steelworkers strike for shorter hours, higher wages, Carnegie’s manager hires cabs and calls in Pinkerton Agency ‘detectives’; national guard sent to reopen mill and establish order; Union loses support after several months on strike

Question 10

Pullman Strike

Answer 10

Workers on strike reduced wages, company does NOT lower rent and prices. Strikes by RR workers shuts down rail systems across U.S. U.S government sent in troops to end strikes. Shows gov’t sides with business over labor; shows, power of nationwide unions

Question 11

Steam Engine

Answer 11

James Watt; steam power first used to power factory machinery but later used for transportation

Question 12

Steamboat

Answer 12

Robert Fulton; made travel possible upriver

Question 13

Steam Locomotive

Answer 13

Invented in England, but will give Americans the power to travel over most areas of land

Question 14

Street Cars

Answer 14

Later powered by overhead electrical wires and riding on rails

Question 15

Cable cars

Answer 15

Passenger cars that attacked to a steam-driver moving cable below the street surface were pulled by the cable along the street; especially useful in cities with hills that were difficult for horses to climb

Question 16

Subways

Answer 16

Below ground passenger trains to reduce crowding on the stress above; moving from one area of a large city to another became much faster and easier

Question 17

What is a trust?

Answer 17

legal relationship in which the owner of property gives it to another person or entity who must keep and use it solely for another’s benefit.