Industrialization Study Guide

Question 1

what are monopolies and how do they benefit big businesses

Answer 1

when one person controls and industry or entire market, benefiting the companies b/c they can control the prices

Question 2

in the late 1800s what was the gov. position on labor unions

Answer 2

skeptical cause they associated it with marxism and anarchism

Question 3

why did factory owners prefer to hire women and children

Answer 3

could pay them less

Question 4

what changes were labor unions able to make for workers

Answer 4

establish min wage
8hr work day
closed shops
child labor laws 
courts ordered laborers back to work

Question 5

whats the Monroe doctrine

Answer 5

doc. stating president Monroe’s annual message to congress. declared that US and European powers to extend their system by any means for the U.S.’s peace and safety

Question 6

Henery Ford’s assembly line resulted in _______ of automobiles and greater ______ of vehicles

Answer 6

mass production

number

Question 7

how did business owners try to stop workers from making demands for better-working conditions and wages

Answer 7

yellow dog contracts, blacklists, lockouts,strike,breakers and scab laborers

Question 8

describe the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Answer 8

Caused from cigarette,doors were locked, many women who were fighting for better wages, conditions etc. could not or did not escape

Question 9

describe the Pullman Strike

Answer 9

Recession in Pulmn comp. caused comp. to cut wages, causing workers to be unable to pay for basic needs, workers that complained were fired, strike began, tieing up RRs and threatened econ.

Question 10

describe Haymarket Riot

Answer 10

Union organizers called for a strike for 8hr wk day. clash between striker and police left one dead. Next day strikers protested, someone threw a bomb, police fired, and workers fired back. 7 police and 4 workers killed. Caused Knights of LAbor pop. to decrease…to 0.

Question 11

laissez-faire

Answer 11

belief that gov shouldnt be involved in business

Question 12

robber barons

Answer 12

RR entrepreneurs who built their wealth by creating, lying and stealing from investors, tax payers gov. officials etc.

Question 13

Knights of LAbor

Answer 13

1st nationwide, industrial union, called for 8hr wk day, gov. bureau of labor logistics, equal pay for women, abolition of child labor,creating of worker-owned factories. Supported arbitration and preferred boycotts

Question 14

assembly line

Answer 14

production system by machines and workers. Arranged so each person performs same task over and over, and hands off item to the next

Question 15

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 15

LEad American Railway Union. One of the companies they unionized was the Pullman Pallace Car Comp.

Question 16

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 16

Bought shares in iron mill, and factories that made cars and locomotives invested in comp. that built RR bridges. Opened company in Pittsburgh

Question 17

blacklist

Answer 17

names of workers who tried to organize a union or strike

Question 18

lockout

Answer 18

locked workers out of the property and refused to pay them

Question 19

collective barganing

Answer 19

Unions that collective bargained over wages and hours

Question 20

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 20

owned standard oil which was a highly efficient company., shipped so much oil, he was able to negotiate rebates, reuds from RR that wanted his business, pressured other companies to sell out to him.