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Gilded Labor
Labor in the Gilded Age
Question | Answer |
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Practice in the 1880s by which railroads would give money back to its favored customers, rather than charging them lower prices, so that it could appear to be charging a flat rate for everyone | Rebates |
Organization of labor unions that only represented skilled workers; excluded women, blacks, and immigrants | American Federation of Labor |
Supreme Court decision that said the Sherman Anti-Trust Act did not apply to manufacturing | US v. E.C. Knight Co. |
Stated that individual states could control trade within their states, but could not regulate railroads coming through them over which only Congress had exclusive jurisdiction | Wabash RR Company v. Illinois |
Labor confrontation that took place between striking workers and police in Chicago and was disrupted by a bomb thrown by anarchists; this episode discredited labor | Haymarket Square riot |
Supreme Court decision that said states could regulate private property affected by the public interest | Munn v. Illinois |
Leader of the Knights of Labor | Terence Powderly |
Members of a private detective agency that were often used as strike breakers | Pinkertons |
Strike at a Pennsylvania steel plant; the strike lasted for five months and then gave in | Homestead Strike |
Founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor; became a leading spokesman for the labor movement | Samuel Gompers |
Labor Union formed in 1869 that included skilled and nonskilled workers | Knights of Labor |
Labor leader who was jailed during the Pullman strike for ignoring an injuction, founder of the Socialist party in the United States | Eugene V. Debs |
Federal law outlawed unfair business practices and established the first regulatory commission | Interstate Commerce Act |
Strike at a company that made sleeper cars for trains; the company cut wages but didn't cut rents or store prices in its "model town" | Pullman Strike |
Strike on the Baltimore and Ohio; first time federal troops were used to quell a strike | Great Railroad Strike of 1877 |
Court order obtained by a company to ban unions and stop strikes | Injunction |
Court case that endorsed the use of a court injunction in a labor strike | In Re Debs |