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Industrial Age
Chapter 17 and Chapter 18
Question | Answer |
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Who were the Knights of Labor? | They were a labor union organization that wanted to reform the labor industry as a whole |
What major company in the late 1800's did John D. Rockefeller found? | Standard Oil |
Andrew Carnegie, a successful business man, believed what about the wealth generated from large corporations? | That the wealth generated from the large corporations could be channeled into charitable and other worthy causes. |
This is a term used to describe wealthy business men in the 1900's who were unethical and monopolistic in their practices. | Robber Barons |
Define laissez-faire | it is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government interference |
What material was too expensive to be used until William Kelly and Henry Bessemer discovered a way to produce this rare metal by the hundreds | Steel |
Social Darwinism is the belief that___________. | the activities of people were governed by the Darwinian principle that the "fittest will always survive" |
What do George, Bellamy, Lloyd all have in common. | They were all authors of books that had influential attacks on monopoly. |
Woman played key roles in the industrial workforce. Name two occupations that woman began to persue. | Nursing, Teaching, work in Textile Mills |
What were some problems that were a result of expanding cities? | crowded neighborhoods, crime ridden, poverty |
What are settlement houses | Community centers located in poor districts that provided guidance and services to all who would use them |
The intense opposition to an internal minority on the grounds of its allegedly un-American characteristics is known as | Nativism |
What were some results of the modernization of the cities. | Paved streets, trolley cars, incandescent lamps, population increase, |
___________ focused on improving living conditions rather than on saving soulsl | Social Gospel |
Define Tenament | run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city. |
an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe. | pogrom |
What was one of the main reasons for new immigration | Industrial expansion |
What was one problem that arose with mechinization. | machines began replacing the need for skilled workers, and those who did work with machinery were at constant risk of injury. |
True or False, the tremendous growth of population in the cities made for a dirtier, more crime ridden environment. | TRUE |
True or False, the larger cities made many kinds of social activity difficult or impossible to maintain in rural areas. | TRUE |