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Chapter 6: Test (R)
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Bessemer | The Bessemer Process developed independently by Henry Bessemer |
| Eugene V. Debs | who attempted to form such an industrial union |
| Edwin L. Drake | Used a steam engine to drill for oil (1859) |
| Thomas Alva Edison | Invented the light bulb in 1879 |
| George Pullman | He built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on Illinois Prairie |
| Christopher Sholes | Invented the typewriter in 1867 |
| American Federation of Labor | negotiation between representatives of labor and management |
| Knights of Labor | was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory | Fire in New York City on May 25,1911, was one of the deadliest industrial disaster |
| Great Strike of 1877 | Railroad workers struck to protest their second wage cut in two months |
| City of Pullman | The town of Pullman was carefully laid out and strictly controlled |
| Alex Graham Bell | Invented the telephone in 1876 |
| John D. Rockefeller | established corporations such as the standard oil company |
| Mary "Mother" Jones | was a Native Ireland who immigrated to North America as a child |
| Samuel Gompers | led the cigar marker's International Union to join with other craft unions in 1886 |
| Andrew Carnegie | He entered the steel business in 1873 |
| Interstate Commerce Act | established the right of the federal government to supervise railroads activities |
| Industrial Workers Of the World | a group of radical unionists and socialists in Chicago |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or countries |
| Credit Mobilier | The stockholders gave this company a contract to lay track at two- three times the actual cost |
| Haymarket Riot | a bomb was thrown at a squad of policemen attempting to break up a labor rally |
| Horizontal Integration | Buying out all of your competitors |
| Vertical Integration | Is a process in which you buy out your suppilers |
| collective Bargaining | to reach written agreements on wages, hours and working conditions |
| Monopoly | A situation in which only one seller controls the production for which there are no close substitutes |
| Labor Union | Skilled or unskilled, black or white- joined together in unions to try to improve their lot |
| Wobblies | Miners, Lumberers, Cannery and Dock works |
| Gilded Age | the period following roughly from the 1870 to the turn of the twentieth century |
| Social Darwinism | He explained that a process of " Natural Selection" weeded out less-suited individuals |
| Recession | is a business cycle contraction and it is a general slowdown in economic activities |
| Sweatshop | is a negatively connoted term for any working environment considered to be unacceptably dangers |
| Industrialism | was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 |
| Scabs | a worker who refuses to join a labor union or to participate in a union strike |
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