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| 1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor | ||
| United States industrialist and philanthropist who created education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919), Prince of Steel | ||
| a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention | ||
| Process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply | ||
| the quantity of goods and services produced from each unit of labor input | ||
| A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities. | ||
| This was a belief held by many that stated that the rich were rich and the poor were poor due to natural selection in society. This was the basis of many people who promoted a laissez faire style of economy. | ||
| control of a product or service by one company | ||
| process of gaining control of the many different businesses that make up all phases of a product's development | ||
| A form of monopoly that occurs when one person or company gains control of one aspect of an entire industry or manufacturing process, such as a monopoly on auto assembly lines or on coal mining, for example. | ||
| a combination of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | ||
| First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions | ||
| Work paid according to the number of units produced | ||
| a shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions | ||
| the breaking down of a job into separate, smaller tasks to be performed individually | ||
| a political theory advocating state (or government) ownership of industry | ||
| negotiation between an employer and trade union | ||
| Negative term for a worker called in by an employer to replace striking laborers | ||
| One against government | ||
| A demonstration of striking laborers in Chicago in 1886 that turned violent, killing a dozen people and injuring over a hundred. | ||
| 1892 steelworker strike near Pittsburgh against the Carnegie Steel Company. Ten workers were killed in a riot when "scab" labor was brought in to force an end to the strike. | ||
| violent 1894 railway workers' strike which began outside of Chicago and spread nationwide | ||
| policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the economy, it should keep its 'hands off' | ||
| a government payment that supports a business or market | ||
| regulations that prohibited certain private activities that some people considered immoral | ||
| the group of people whose job it is to carry out the work of the government | ||
| a partial refund of the original price of the product | ||
| organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews) | ||
| cramped quarters on a ship's lower decks for passengers paying the lowest fares | ||
| isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease | ||
| area of a city where an ethnic or racial group lives or is contained | ||
| A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. | ||
| a citizen of another country; foreign, strange | ||
| a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | ||
| poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived | ||
| tenements, had at least one window in every room and two water closets to a floor; had narrow air shafts on each side of the building, which became receptacles for garbage | ||
| well organized group that controls election results by awarding jobs and other favors in exchange for votes | ||
| illegal use of political influence for personal gain | ||
| a movement emphasizing the application of Christian principles to social problems | ||
| a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services, workers were to live in areas they helped | ||
| The study of how people behave in groups | ||
| a policy of favoring US-born individuals over foreign-born ones | ||
| An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption. | ||
| banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol | ||
| Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations | ||
| English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882) | ||
| formed Standard Oil Trust and made millions while monopolizing the oil industry | ||
| the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes | ||
| woman who had strong beliefs in prohibition; walk around holding a bible and a hatchet with hatchet she'd walk around bars and destroy them | ||
| an organization of skilled specialists in a particular trade | ||
| An association of all workers in the same industry, regardless of the job each worker performs |
