APUSH Chap 17: Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts (1877-1911) Vocab
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| show | 1892 lockout at Pennyslvania steel mill after Andrew Carnegie refused to renew the union contract - Union supporters/workers attacked Pinkerton National Detective Agency guards hired to protect the mill, but National Guard broke the strike.
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| show | internal management structure adopted by large corps that distinguished top executives from those responsible for day-to-day operations and departmentalized operations by function. Specialized management (sales, finance, advertising, purchasing, etc.)
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| Vertical Integration | show 🗑
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| show | Rockefeller absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level. a type of monopoly where a company buys out all of its competition.
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| show | small group of associates (board of trustees) that hold stock from a group of combined firms, managing them as a single entity. evolved into other centralized business forms
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| show | process of breaking down the tasks involved in the production of goods or services into parts that can be done by someone without specialized training.
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| show | ford and swift belief that production of goods in large numbers and cheaply, through the use of machinery and assembly lines
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| show | management theory using efficiency experts to examine each work operations and find ways to minimize the time needed to complete it
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| show | (1882) laws that barred/denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.
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| Great Railroad Strike of 1877 | show 🗑
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| show | Political party made up of grangers, labor advocates, and local workingmen's. devoted to improving the lives of laborers and raising inflation, reaching its high point in 1878 when it polled over a million votes and elected fourteen members of Congress.
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| Producerism | show 🗑
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| show | set of laws designed to address railroad discrimination against small farmers, covering issues like freight rates and railroad rebates triggered by pressure from farmers and the Greenback-Labor Party.
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| Knights of Labor | show 🗑
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| Anarchism | show 🗑
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| show | A May Day rally in Chicago that turned violent when a bomb was in the middle of the meeting, killing several dozen people. Eight anarchists were arrested for conspiracy contributing to the disorder, although evidence linking them to the bombing was thin.
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| Farmers' Alliance | show 🗑
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| show | Established the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) which monitors the business operation of carriers transporting goods and people between states to regulate railroad prices. counteracted the supreme court decision of Wabash v. Illinois
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| closed shop | show 🗑
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| show | first federation of labor union in US. Founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886. arose from dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor, rejected socialist/communist ideas, was non-violent. sought better wages, hrs, work cond. had skilled/well-paid workers
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| Andrew Carnegie | show 🗑
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| show | Chicago cattle dealer, who enlarged fresh meat markets through branch slaughterhouses and refrigeration-monopolized the meat industry. Developed mechanical refrigeration-earned him a fortune-provided a major stimulus to the growth of the cattle industry.
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| show | American industrialist and philanthropist; he made a fortune in the oil and petroleum business and used vertical and horizontal integration to establish a monopoly on the steel business. created trust companies and the Standard Oil Company
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| Henry George | show 🗑
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| show | led the Knights of Labor, a skilled and unskilled union, wanted equal pay for equal work, an 8hr work day and to end child labor. had opposed strikes, producer-consumer cooperation, temperance, welcomed blacks and women (allowing segregation)
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| show | Irish American widow who was forced into factory work. held national office within the Knights of Labor. She brought attention to the conditions of working women through her involvement in the labor reform movement.
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| show | Jewish cigar maker whose family emigrated to new york. United States labor leader (born in England) who was president of the American Federation of Labor. did not agree woth the knights and made the organization alongside skilled laborers.
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