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OGT History B
OGT History Benchmark B
Question | Answer |
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Beginning in England in the 1750's, it was a change in the way goods were produced. Instead of making goods at home by hand, people produced them in factories with large machines. | INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION |
Vast amounts of identical goods were made. | MASS PRODUCTION |
New scientific methods and machinery had a positive impact on farming. | AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION |
The movement of large numbers of people from rural areas to cities, primarily in search of jobs. | URBANIZATION |
People moving from other countries into the United States. | IMMIGRATION |
Organized by workers so that they could act as a group with greater bargaining power than they had as individuals. | LABOR UNIONS |
Workers halt all production hoping to put pressure on their employer to meet their demands. | STRIKE |
Formed to serve as a single union for all workers skilled and unskilled. Demanded 8 hour workday, safety codes in factories, higher wages, end child labor, and equal pay for women. | KNIGHTS OF LABOR |
An organization created in 1881 as a loose combination of unions of skilled workers, like carpenters. | AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR |
People moving out of a country to another country. | EMIGRATE |
Formed by farmers, called for restrictions on railroad companies, an 8 hour workday, a progressive income tax, and direct elections of U.S. Senators. | POPULIST PARTY |
A political movement of the early 1900's which sought to correct the abuses of industrialization and to reform government. | PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT |
Journalists who uncovered corruption and abuses in society. | MUCKRAKERS |
The government should not interfere in the operations of businesses. | LAISSEZ-FAIRE |
Made monopolies illegal. | SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT |