social studiess test 11/20
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- Fredrick W. Taylor
- efficiency engineer with the miduale steel company preformed time and motion studies to standardize worker activity
- John D. Rockefeller
- started an oil refining company
- collective bargaining
- in which union leaders negotiated for better wages and working conditions on behalf of all workers in a perticular factory
- Grover Cleveland
- president who sent federal troops to chicago
- populist party
- the high point of farmers activities
- oliver kelley
- clerical worker, toured the south fr the u.s. department of agriculture saw firsthand how nation's farmers suffered. Founded National Grange
- entrepreneurs
- people who started new businesses
- patent
- exclusive right to manufacture or sell an invention
- Knights of Labor
- union orginally organized like a secret society
- Pullman strike
- strike by workers at pullman's palace car company that stopped traffic on many railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to go back to their jobs
- anarchists
- people who opposed all types of government
- Sherman antitrust act
- law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade
- benjamin harrison
- won republican election
- Terence V. Powderly
- leader of the Knights of Labor, eliminated the secrecy of the Knights of Labor
- Bessemer Process
- allowed several tons of iron to made into steel in only 10-20 minues by blasting hot air into the iron
- gold standard
- only gold could back currency
- williams jennings bryan
- with free coinage of silver "all necessary reforms will be possible"
- Thomas Alva Edison
- Telegraph operator that designed improvments into the telegraph; invented the lightbulb
- American Federation of Labor (AFL)
- one of the first large labor unions in the u.s. organized in the 1880's by Samuel Gompers as an association of individual skilled craft union
- homestead strike
- volent strike at Andrew Carnegies homestead steel factory in pennsylvania, june 29 1892
- Mary Harris-Jones
- the union organizer; called mother jones by the workers whose rights she protected
- wright brothers
- repaired bicycles, began experimeting with airplane esigns in the 1890's. made first airplane
- Second Industial Revolutin
- a period of explosive growth in manufacting and industries int eh late 1800's
- trust
- legal arrangement grouping together of companies under a single board of directors
- national grange
- social education organization for farmers
- Andrew Carnegie
- born in scotland in 1835, became telegraph operator then the assistant to a railroad manager, became wealthy by making wise investment choices
- interstate commerce commission
- ensures that railroads charged fair rates and didn't discriminate in favor og big shippers
- Alexander Graham Bell
- inventor; patented the telephone scottish born speech teacher who also worked with the hearing impaired
- vertical integration
- owning businesses involved in each step of manufacturing process
- Haymarket Riot
- incident in which a bomb exploded during a lobor protest in Haymarket square in chicago, killing several police officers
- Samuel Gompers
- leader of the American Ferderation of Labor (AFL)
- sherman silver purchase act
- increased the amount of silver purchase for coinage
- horizontal integration
- owning all businesses in a particular field
- free enterprise
- business that is free from government involvement
- Farmers alliance
- political organization that organized to collect candidates and to achieve policies that would help them
- corporations
- companies that sell shares of ownership called stocks
- interstate commerce act
- provided consistent notional regulations over trade around the states
- tictacs
- courtneys favorite candy lol
- free coinage
- gold and silver were coined and paper money was worth a certain amount of gold or silver