AP US History Flashcards

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