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chapter 6 review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| giving off visible light as a result of being heated | incandescent |
| laws that favored farmers and consumers | granger laws |
| a law intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade | sherman-anti trust act |
| economic and social philosphy holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest | social darwinism |
| the merging of company's that makes similiar products | horizontal integration |
| company's taking over its suppliers, distributors, and transportation systems to gain control over the production | vertical integration |
| market in which one company has complete control over an industry's production, quality, wages and price charges | monopoly |
| corporation made up of many companies that receive certificates entitling them to dividends on profits earned | trust |
| workshops in tenements rather than in factories | sweatshops |
| estblished the federal government's rights to supervise railroad activities | interstate commerce act |
| a construction company used to frequently skim off railroaad profits | credit moblier |
| railway linking the atlantic and pacific coasts of the US | transcontinental railroad |
| injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities | bessemer process |
| negotiation between representatives of labor and managment | collective bargaining |
| an economic and political system based on government control of business and property and equal distribution of wealth | socialism |
| teh act of uniting or combining | consolidation |
| labor union organized by radical unionists and socialists | Industrial worker's of the world |
| railroad industrialist who built a town to house his employees | george pullman |
| developed a cheap and effective process for making steel | henry bessemer |
| focused on collective bargaining and used strikes as a major tactic | American Federation of Labor (AFL) |
| who established the standard oil comapny and used it to gain control of the oil industry | john d rockefeller |
| president of the AFL and fought for the rights of women | samuel gompers |
| leader of several industrial unions that included skilled and unskilled workers | eugene debs |
| made his wealth with the PA RR and then started his own steel company. | andrew carnegie |
| the union pacific RR company was known for hiring these immigrants | irish |
| Result of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire? | changes in local labor laws for children and women |
| used steam engine to drill for oil | edwin drake |
| one of the most prominent leaders of the women's labor movement | mary harris jones |
| goal of the intestate commerce act | lower excessive RR rates |
| how was colective bargainning used | win worker's rights |
| owned a company that produced sleeper cars | george pullman |
| gave states rights to regulate the RR's for the benefit of farmes and consumers | Munn v. Illinois |
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