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6.3 Big Business and Labor

Vocabulary for chapter 6, section 3.

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Andrew CarnegieCreated Carnegie Steel Company
vertical integrationBuying out suppliers to control the raw material and transportation systems.
horizontal integrationCompanies producing similar products are merged.
Social DarwinismA way to justify the doctrine of laissez faire or the belief that the marketplace should not be regulated.
John D. RockefellerFounder of the Standard Oil Company which combined oil compnies into a trust agreement.
Sherman Antitrust ActMade it illiegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries.
Samuel GompersLed the Cigar Makers' International Union to join with other craft unions.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)Focsed on collective bargaining to reach written agreements on wages, hours, and working conditions.
Eugene V. DebsAttempted to form a union of skilled and unskilled workers called the American Railway Union.
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)A group of radical unionists and socialists called the Wobblies.
Mary Harris JonesThe most prominent organizer in the woman's labor movement.


Pearland High School
Pearland, TX

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