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20/21st - Davis - SVHS - A New Industrial Age

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Bessemer Process   Injecting oxygen into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities creating steel  
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Vertical Integration   Owning all businesses involved in the production of a product  
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Social Darwinism   Theory that those who are the most “fit” will succeed and become rich  
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Cartel   a loose association of businesses that make the same product and agree to limit supply to keep prices high  
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Horizontal Integration   Owning all the companies that produce similar products  
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Sherman Antitrust Act   law passed by Congress in an attempt to limit the amount of control a business could have over an industry  
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Trusts   numerous companies within an industry agree to turn over their assets to a trust in return for a share of the profits of the new organization  
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Interstate Commerce Act   established the right of the federal government to supervise RR activity using a five member Interstate Commerce Committee (ICC)  
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monopoly   one company dominates an industry through horizontal consolidation—buying up businesses of competitors  
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Robber Barons   Exploited natural resources, drove competitors to ruin, paid workers measly wages, provided dangerous working conditions, and lived in lap of luxury  
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What were the causes of the Industrial Revolution?   Immigrants, inventions, capital, migration to cities, and urban growth  
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What were the effects of the Industrial Revolution?   Growth of big businesses, skyrocketing urban population with urban problems, social reformers, and political machines seize control of cities  
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What did new forms of energy, communication, and transportation trigger?   a massive INCREASE in industrial productivity  
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Who were the key players of the Industrial Revolution?   inventors, investors, & workers  
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What revolutionized American Industry through faster delivery of products, lower production costs, and by creating national markets?   The Transcontinental Railroad  
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Who built his Employees a town that contain brick homes with a window in every room, doctor’s offices, shops, and an athletic field?   George Pullman  
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Laws that were passed because a group of farmers organized and sponored political candidates to put a stop to the Railroad charging high rates and misusing land grants?   Granger Laws  
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Who owned Standard Oil Company and used trusts to gain total control of the oil industry in America by selling his oil at a lower cost than it was to produce it?   John Rockefeller  
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What were shops where employees such as women & children worked in a run down apartment house because they often paid lower than factories.   sweatshops  
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What included: 12-14 hour days, six days a week, wages so low that everyone in the family had to work, poor lighting and ventilation, and high death rates.   working conditions of the time period  
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By the end of the 1800s, how many children between the ages of 10 and 16 was employed.   1 in 5  
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Who attempted Industrial Unionism with railway workers in 1894 and won a strike for higher wages.   Eugene Debs  
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Who became president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and focused on collective bargaining to improve conditions, wages and hours.   Samuel Gompers  
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Who formed the United Mine Workers of America and was an important figure in West Virginia in ralling the coal miners to strike and march to Mingo.   Mother Jones  
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In an effort to prevent unions from forming employers would have new employees sign what workers nicknamed _________________ contracts stating they would never join a union.   Yellow Dog  
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