2.10 - 2.15 ✔️ Flashcards
(52 cards)
Organization formed by workers meant to negotiate for certain things like better pay, safer working conditions, and better benefits
labor union
First major labor organization. Open to all genders and for both unskilled and skilled workers
Knights of Labor
A violent confrontation between police and labor protesters in Chicago that became the symbol for the international struggle for workers’ rights.
Haymarket Riot 1886
A national federation of labor unions that still continues today.
American Federation of Labor
When workers tried to protest the paycut. This led to a bloody confrontation between the workers and the hired Pinkerton security guards, killing 16 and injuring many others. (Carnegie Steel company)
Homestead Strike 1892
A widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the midwest. Government’s first time using an injunction to break a strike
Pullman Strike 1894
Attack on striking coal miners and their families - resulted in the deaths of 25 people.
Ludlow Massacre 1914
Social organization that fought monopolist gran transport.
Grange Movement
An American agrarian movement during the 1870’s and 1880’s that sought to improve the economic conditions for certain people through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy.
Farmers’ Alliances
Free market economic system where people believe that the invisible hand of the market guides the economy.
Laissez Faire
Federal law to deliver 10000 dollars of aid to purchase seed gran for farmers after a major drought in texas. Vetoed by president cleveland
Texas Grain Bill, 1887
A theory that applied the theory of darwinism to people. It essentially states that poor people deserve to be poor and rich people deserve to be rich.
Social Darwinism
A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups
Populism
Politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century.
People’s (populist) party
Economic depression in the US where many lost their jobs and many farmers lost their farms.
Panic of 1893
Wanted to introduce silver as a basis for money as well (before this only gold was allowed to be used for money). Farmers + populists liked this as it would help them pay off debt
Bimetallism
When paper money is only linked to gold. Silver is not a currency.
Gold Standard
Populist Party’s list of goals from their convention in 1892
Omaha Platform
Populist leader
William Jennings Bryan
Created an interstate commerce commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry. AKA when railroads became regulated by federal gov.
Interstate Commerce Act 1887
first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
Sherman Antitrust act 1890
the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909
Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt’s domestic policy agenda - Aimed to ensure fairness
Square deal
political philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt, an espousal of active federal intervention to promote social justice and the economic welfare of the underprivileged;
New Nationalism
