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Question 1

Wabash v Illinois

Answer 1

Individual states had no power to regulate intestate trade

Question 2

Interstate commerce act

Answer 2

Prohibits rebates and pools. Openly publish rates have to charge less for a shorter route. First time that gov is interacting with business ever

Question 3

Importance of interstate commerce act

Answer 3

Set up interstate commerce commission

Question 4

Vertical integration

Answer 4

Owning all aspects and services required to run a business

Question 5

Horizontal integration

Answer 5

Teaming up with competitors to raise prices ( pooling)

Question 6

American beauty rose

Answer 6

Have to pluck competitors to become the prettiest rose

Question 7

Gospel of wealth

Answer 7

You owe society something If you’re rich. Giving them the opportunity through libraries etc.

Question 8

Sherman anti trust act of 1890

Answer 8

Forbade combinations ad trusts but no distinction between food and bad trusts

Question 9

What made south attractive for factory owners

Answer 9

Tax benefit and cheap labor

Question 10

Biggest threat to union workers

Answer 10

Companies could eaaily replace them

Question 11

How do rr open up international markets

Answer 11

If you can get product to west Asian markets only across a sea

Question 12

Injunction

Answer 12

A government order to stop a strike. Can be broken up with force

Question 13

Yellow dog contract

Answer 13

Contracts workers were forced to sign banning them from joining a union

Question 14

Blacklisting

Answer 14

Troublemakers get fired and boss makes sure that noone else hires him

Question 15

who’s enterprise was the railroad

Answer 15

vanderbilt

Question 16

2 benefits made to railroads

Answer 16

steel tracks and standard track gauge

Question 17

telophone

Answer 17

created in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. Changed the way that americans communicated especially across the country.

Question 18

Bessemer process

Answer 18

technique that made stronger, cheaper steel.

Question 19

Plutocracy

Answer 19

Wealthy taking control of the government

Question 20

opportunities for women

Answer 20

could get a job and eventually led to the idea of vting for woen

Question 21

American federation of labor

Answer 21

Association of smaller self governing unions

Question 22

new immigrants

Answer 22

ffrom south and east, usually not christian. Good at unskilled factory labor. no education, and assocaited with crime and ghettos

Question 23

Old Immigrants

Answer 23

Usually led normal lives, but tried to hide their immigrant past. Did not like new immigrants