Everything Flashcards
(20 cards)
Union formed in 1866 that organized skilled workers along craft lines and emphasized a few work place issues rather than broad social issues.
American Federation of Labor
Favoring the interests and culture of native-born over immigrants.
Nativism
A combination of corporations cooperating in order to reduce competition and control prices.
Trusts
A place of comfort for the poor founded by a woman.
The Hull House
Thesis that states that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth and that poverty is a character flaw.
Gospel of Wealth.
Government directed attacks on a particular ethnic group are called :
Pogroms
According to Social Darwinism:
The human race evolves only through competition.
Horizontal Integration refers to:
The merging of competitors in a particular industry.
Sweatshops:
Small rooms, buildings or apartments were workers manufacture or assemble garments.
Describe the term “Gilded Age”.
A cheap or showy display of Wealth.
A protest march of unemployed workers
Coxey’s Army
Interstate Commerce Commision
First federal regulation agency, established in 1887 to regulate the railroad.
Small groups of conservative reformers
Mugwumps
Laissez-Faire
Doctrine that stated that government should stay out of economic affairs.
The Prohibition Party
Advocated the abolition of alcohol and the right for women to vote.
Party formed on the basis of the Farme’s Alliance and other reform organizations.
The populist party
The Greenback Party
Campaigned for currency inflation to expand the economy and assist debtors
The Interstate Commerce Act prohibited :
rebates, pooling, and discriminatory rates by railroads.
The Pendleton Service Act:
Reformed the spoils system by prohibiting government workers form making campaign contributions.
What does the term “sound Money” refer to?
The advocation of keeping the dollar compared to the gold standard so it did not lose its value.
