A | B |
scab | replacement worker during a strike |
robber | faultfinding name for tycoon: _____ baron |
Credit Mobilier | construction company of scheming stockholders: notorious for corruption |
collective | another name for group bargaining |
Thomas Edison | invented the light bulb in his Menlo Park, New Jersey lab |
fittest | Social Darwinism stressed "survival of the ___" |
socialism | system of government-owned business that set standards of wages, economics, and wealth |
Sherman Antitrust Act | this antitrust act prohibited interference of free trade |
Eugene Debs | he organized the first industrial union |
union | labor organization that worked to protect workers, wages, and working conditions |
railroads | the case of Munn v. Illinois gave states the right to regulate ___________ |
Drake | he used a steam engine to drill for oil |
craft union | an organization that brings together skilled and unskilled workers in a specific industry |
Alexander Graham Bell | he invented the telephone |
Andrew Carnegie | 19th century industrialist who gave money to build public libraries hoping to help others write their own rags-to-riches story |
Charles Darwin | wrote "Origin of the Species" about biological evolution |
Eugene Debs | he believed unions should include ALL laborers-both skilled and unskilled |
Garfield | Congressman during the Credit Mobilier scandal who later became president |
Big Bill Haywood | led the Industrial Workers of the World |
wobblies | another name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World |
consolidation | the act of uniting or combining |
Bessemer process | this technique involved injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities |
gasoline | originally this was a byproduct of refining oil: today it's expensive and needed by everyone who drives a car |
Pullman | built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois prairie |
Rockefeller | he established Standard Oil |
Haymarket | strikers met at Chicago's ___ Square to protest police brutality at the McCormick Harvester plant...what happened here turned public opinion against unions |
Homestead | workers at this steel plant in Pennsylvania went on strike to protest working conditions |