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Industrialization
Term | Definition |
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Capitalism | An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit |
Laissez Faire | Economic policy of letting things take their course without gov intervention (gov interfered in free market as little as possible) |
Social Darwinism | Free competition; survival of the fittest |
Socialism | Factors of production are owned by public and operate for welfare of all; grew out of optimistic view of human nature and concern for social justice |
Communism | Economic and political system based on one-party gov and state ownership of property/means of production; no private property |
Laissez Faire & Social Darwinists support which economic ideology (capitalism, socialism, communism,) | Capitalism |
Monopoly | Market condition where a single supplier dominates the market for a given product |
Two ways to obtain a monopoly | Vertical integration; horizontal integration |
Vertical Integration | Purchase of companies at all levels of production (think farms) |
Horizontal Integration | Purchase of competing companies in same industry |
Holding Company | Company that owns other companies' outstanding stock; generally do not produce goods/services themselves; purpose is to own shares of other companies to gain control/power |
Corporation | Independent company owned by shareholders; held legally liable for the actions and debts the business incurs |
Problems faced by workers | long hours; boring/repetitive work; low wages; dangerous and unsanitary working conditions; child labor |
Goals of Trade Unions | Obtain higher wages and better working conditions; look after members outside of their place of employment; pressure gov |
What kind of workers could join the Knights of Labor | Skilled and unskilled workers |
Did the Knights of Labor prefer the arbitration of disputes or strikes | Arbitration of disputes - collective bargaining |
Who founded the American Federation of Labor | Samuel Gompers |
American Federation of Labor | Federation of craft unions; members restricted to skilled workers; did not admit women |
What kind of workers could join the American Federation of Labor | Skilled workers |
Goals of American Federation of Labor | Better pay; 8 hour work day; closed shop (employer hired only union members) |
Corporate Strategies (against Unions) | High priced lawyers (pressure politicians); hire scabs (strikebreakers); state and federal troops brought in; lockout (workers shut out); yellow dog contracts (forced promise not to join union); black list; company towns |
Alexander Graham Bell | Patented the telephone (1875) |
Thomas Edison | Patented phonograph; invented light bulb; (invented stock-ticker) |
Labor Union | Organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights/interests |
Andrew Carnegie | Adopted Bessemer process; built large steelworks |
John D. Rockefeller | Formed Standard Oil company |
JP Morgan | Contributed to electricity, banking, steel industries (helped form & then owned General Electric, formed JP Morgan & Company banking institution, formed US Steel) |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | Shipping and railroad; owned steamship company |
Trusts | Group of businessmen organized for mutual benefit to produce/distribute a specific commodity |
Robber Barons | Successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless/unethical |
Bessemer Process | Industrial process for making steel; air blown into hot pig iron to remove impurities; reduces cost of making steel by 80% |
George Pullman | Invented railroad cars in which passengers could sleep |
Henry Ford | Founder of Ford Motor Company; invented less expensive automobile |
Orville and Wilbur Wright | Invented first airplane |
Eugene Debs | Labor leader that helped form the American Railway Union - IWW leader |
What caused the Railroad strikes 1877 (aka The Great Strike) | Workers for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad struck to protest wage cuts |
Effects of Railroad strikes 1877 (aka The Great Strike) | Several state governors asked President Hayes to intervene, saying strikers were impeding interstate commerce; federal troops end the strike |
What caused the Haymarket Affair | 3k people gathered to protest police brutality (a striker had been killed the day before) |
Effects of the Haymarket Affair | Bomb thrown into crowd, killing policemen and injuring others; unions became associated with anarchism and violence; dissolved Knights of Labor (also led to formation of American Federation of Labor??) |
What caused the Homestead Strike | Union's contract with Carnegie ended & Frick announced pay cuts for workers; Frick locked out workers from steel mills; workers surrounded the plant on strike with picket lines |
Effects of the Homestead Strike | Company hires strikebreakers/scabs (fill ins for striking workers); striking workers force out company security and keep plant closed for months; strikers lost support and gave in |
What caused the Pullman Strike | Cut wages without cutting cost of employee housing and local goods |
Effects of the Pullman Strike | Brought railroads in the western US to a standstill; destroyed American Railway Union; Eugene Debs sent to prison and becomes socialist |
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | Industrial accident where over 140 young women died that pushed New York to begin pushing for laws to protect employees. |
Collective Bargaining | Negotiations between labor leaders and company leaders to guarantee worker protections and wages in a contract |
Strike | A stoppage of work to persuade employers to improve condtions and wages. |