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US CH6 Vocab
US History(Honors) CH 6-Vocab-A New Industrial Age
| Definition | Person/Term/Concept |
|---|---|
| Formed the American Railway Union | Eugene V. Debs |
| Process by which a company buys out all of its suppliers | Vertical integration |
| Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the steel industry | Andrew Carnegie |
| Focused on collective bargaining and used strikes as a major tactic | American Federation of Labor (AFL) |
| Made it illegal for corporations to interfere with free interstate of international trade | Sherman Antitrust Act |
| A corporation that does nothing but buy our the stock of other companies | a holding company |
| Supporter of the Great Strike of 1877 and organizer of the United Mine Workers of America | Mary Harris Jones |
| Organized in Chicago, 1905, by a group of radical unionists and socialists | Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or Wobblies |
| Theory that justified the efforts of millionaires and discouraged government interference in big business | Social Darwinism |
| A corporation made up of many companies that receive certificates entitling them to dividends on profits earned | a Trust |
| a market in which one company has complete control over an industry's production, quality, wages paid, and prices charged | Monopoly |