| A | B |
|---|
| A Full Dinner Pail | late 1890s - Presidential campaign slogan for McKinley - country hoping to get out of a depression |
| AFL-CIO | its a labor union - it stands for American Federation of Labor |
| American Federation of Labor | led by Samuel Gompers - organized SKILLED workers, BUT no women or African Americans allowed |
| Bessemer Process | made producing steel "easier" & "cheaper" |
| "birds of passage" | people who left their country, came to the U.S., worked, earned money & then returned home |
| bonds | cities sell them to raise $, people buy them to invest & earn interest/extra money |
| "boom or bust" | American companies in the late 1800s - they either made it BIG, or lost it all |
| bourgeoisie | shop owners |
| "bread & butter" unionism | worker's wages, hours, & working conditions |
| Brooklyn Bridge | built in late 1800s - linked up Manhattan Island with Long Island - extended NYC - first SUSPENSION BRIDGE |
| Captains of Industry | a GOOD term for people who were creative, inventive, made life easier for people, created BIG companies, ALSO got rich |
| cartel | an association of groups - done to protect each other |
| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | it ended Chinese immigration to the United States |
| collective bargaining | union chiefs/bosses negotiate/ work out contracts for the workers with management |
| corporation | a huge company - owned by a group of stockholders/people who invest/give money to it (to make money) |
| Credit Mobilier | scandal involving building the "Union Pacific RR" - it involved payoffs & bribes to Congress & the Vice President |
