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what metal helaped fuel industrialization?
steel
what is morse code?
series of
dots
and
dashes
and is used on a
telegraph
who was thomas edison?
made powerplant/
lightbulb
, with
e-factories
can
work more hours
and be
everywhere
what is alternating current?
developed by
tesla
, sold to
George
Westinghouse, longer
distances
, used
today
who is alexander graham bell?
inventor
of the
telephone
who built the railroads?
immigrants
(Asian and Irish),
African Americans
why were time zones created?
to keep
railroad
schedules
what was the interstate commerce act?
regulates
trade
, not
strong
enough
what are robber barons?
got
rich
,
exploited
workers
what is laissez-faire?
"
hands off
" little
government
regulation
what is social darwinism?
the
best
individuals will
succeed
who is andrew carnegie?
built
giant
steel
firm
what is vertical consolidation?
buying
out
companies
who was john d rockefeller?
robber
baron
or captain of
industry
?,
standard oil
, bought other oil companies and did not believe in
digging
in the
ground
for
oil
what is horizontal consolidation?
controlling
competition
at one step in the process of a
market
what is a monopoly?
a
firm
controls all
competition
what is a
trust
?
companies
agree
to work together and have
one board
of
trustees
to
control stock
what's wrong with having monopolies and no competition?
prices
can go way
up
and
quality
can go way
down
what is the sherman anti-trust act?
outlaws
trusts and
monopolies
,
difficult
to enforce
unions
were usually
illegal
until
1840s
for
interfering
in commerce
what are knights of labor?
unskilled
/skilled workers
demanded
reformsin
child
labor
,
safety
,
8hr
work
days, equal pay for women
what is the American federation of labor?
skilled workers demanded
higher
pay
,
shorter
work
week
what did unions want?
improved
conditions
what is the homestead strike?
carnegie's
partner
Frick
hired
Pinkertons
to
violently
end strike
what is the great RR Strike of 1877?
RR
shut
down
,
Hayes
used
army
to
end strike
what is the Haymarket Square riot?
bomb
killed
7 policemen
,
police
fired on
strikers
what is the pullman strike?
RR
shut down,
federal troops
brought in and people get hurt and lose their
jobs
how were unions prevented?
not hiring
union workers
(
black
list), banning
union meetings
, using the
courts
and
troops
to stop unions