| A | B |
|---|
| government benefits for land giveaway for railroad concerns | long term preferential rates for postal service and military trafic |
| transcontinental line | joining of the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific from the east |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | led the way for railroad consolidation |
| railroad improvements | steel rails in place of Iron, standard gauge of track, safety features |
| coleman palace cars | train cars designed for very wealthy people |
| impact of railroad expansion | immigration in the enormouse domestic markt for American raw materials, industrialization, mining and agriculture, US split into 4 time zones |
| wabash case | individual states had no power to regulate interstate commerce |
| interstate commerce act of 1887 | prohibited rebates and pools and r3equired the railroads to publish their rates openly; forbid discrimination against shippers |
| impact of immigration on steel industry | helped make unskilled labor cheap and plentiful |
| vertical integration | combining into one orgainization all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing |
| horizontal integration | allying with competitors to monopolize a given market (Rockefeller) |
| interlocking directorates | J.P. Morgan; to bring small companies under control of his larger company- placing officers of large company on boards of smaller companies |
| plutocracy | a controlling class of the wealthy; concept found in the constitution that gave congress sold jurisdictoin over interstae congress |
| sherman anti trust act of 1890 | flatly forbade combinations on restraint of trade without any distinction between "good" trusts and "bad" trusts |
| Henry W Grady | advocated to get south to become agressive (like in the civil war) to outplay the north at the commercial and industrial game |
| factors of the textile growth | taz benefits and the prospect of cheap and non unionized labor |
| Age of Industry effect on women | development of typewriter, telephones etc...new job opportunities opend up |
| "yellow dog" contract | attempted by corporations to limit the power of labor unions |
| goals of the "knights of labor" | wanted to include all of the workers in America into one big union, campaigned for better wages, better safety and health requirements |
