5137100857 | Adam Smith | One of the worlds most famous economists | 0 | |
5137100858 | American Federation of Labor | Labor unions in the US founded in Ohio by an alliance of craft Unions | 1 | |
5137100859 | Andrew Carnegie | US industrial leader who made millions in the steel industry | 2 | |
5137100860 | Edward Bellamy | American author and socialist Most known for his novel "Looking Backward" | 3 | |
5137100861 | Eugene V Debs | Head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman Strike | 4 | |
5137100862 | Frederick Winslow Taylor | American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency | 5 | |
5137100863 | Gospel of Wealth | Article written by Carnegie that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich | 6 | |
5137100864 | Grotesque luxury | Buying and using products of the statement they make about social position | 7 | |
5137100865 | Hay market bombing | Few hundred anarchists that advocated a violent overthrow of the American government -dynamite bomb was thrown, injuring or killing dozens of people | 8 | |
5137100866 | Henry Clay frick | Manager of the Carnegie Steel plant outside Pittsburgh PA | 9 | |
5137100867 | Henry ford | American business man -helped to make inexpensive cars so that Americans could buy them | 10 | |
5137100868 | Henry George | Author of "Progress and Poverty" | 11 | |
5137100869 | Holding companies | Companies that hold a majority of another company's stock in order to control the management of that company | 12 | |
5137100870 | Homestead strike | One of the most violent strikes in US history -against the Homestead Steel Works in retaliation against wage cuts | 13 | |
5137100871 | Horatio Alger | American writer of inspirational adventure books Supported the belief that in America one could rise from rags to riches | 14 | |
5137100872 | Horizontal integration | Buying businesses in a similar industry | 15 | |
5137100873 | John D Rockefeller | American industrialist & philanthropist Founder of the Standard Oil Company | 16 | |
5137100874 | John Peter Altgeld | Illinois governor who pardoned the probably innocent survivor of the Haymarket bombing | 17 | |
5137100875 | J.P. Morgan | Banker who bought out the Carnegie Steel Company and renames it the US Steel | 18 | |
5137100876 | Knights of Labor | One of the most important American labor organizations of the 19th century | 19 | |
5137100877 | Limited liability | Legal principal that facilitates capital investment by offering protection for individual investors | 20 | |
5137100878 | Molly Maguires | Secret Irish organization of coal miners in region of western PA and West Virginia in the mid to late 1800s | 21 | |
5137100879 | National Labor | Group who wanted 8 hour work days, banking reform, greenbackism, equal rights to all people and to end conviction labor -templet for later unions | 22 | |
5137100880 | Pullman strike | American Railway Union Wages were cut- striker flipped Pullman cars and paralyzed railway traffic from Chicago to the Pacific COast | 23 | |
5137100881 | Samuel Gompers | American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history | 24 | |
5137100882 | Scientific management | System of industrial management created and promoted in the early 1900s by Frederick W Taylor | 25 | |
5137100883 | Social Darwinism | Encouraged the notion of human competition and opposed intervention in the natural human order | 26 | |
5137100884 | Trusts | Firms or corporations that combine for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling pieces | 27 | |
5137100885 | Vertical integration | Owning all aspects of production | 28 | |
5137100886 | Wilbur and Orville Wright | Developed the first airplane with fixed wings and a gas engine | 29 | |
5137100887 | Women's trade union league | US organization of both working class and more well-off women to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions | 30 |
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