Industralization And Interconnection

Question 0

Knights of labor

Answer 0

Est. 1869 - rejection of socialism and promotion of the producer ethic of republicanism

Question 1

First joint European and North American economic depression

Answer 1

Panic of 1873

Question 2

Gilded Age

Answer 2

1870-1900 –> 60% rise in wages compared to Europe

Question 3

Robber Barons

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Wealth and powerful 19th century American businessmen.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie

Question 4

Erie Canal

Answer 4

1825 - mid west breadbasket open to the Atlantic

Question 5

First successful steamboat

Answer 5

1807 - The Clermont - 32 hours NYC to Alabamy

Question 6

UK belt of innovation

Answer 6

Liverpool - Manchester

Question 7

US Milage of railroad track in 1890

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163,562 miles

Question 8

First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad

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1869 - Chinese and Irish labor

Question 9

Rebuilding of Paris

Answer 9

1853 - Eugene Haussmann

Question 10

Sherman Anti Trust Act

Answer 10

1890 - protection of consumers from price fixing

Question 11

Children’s Employment Commission (Mines) report

Answer 11

1842

Question 12

Mines act

Answer 12

1842 - prohibited women and children under 10 from working underground

Question 13

Luddites –> Hobsbawm comment

Answer 13

1815-20 – “collective bargaining by riot”

Question 14

American Federation of Labour

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1886

Question 15

The railway strike

Answer 15

1887

Question 16

Reform to 8 hour workday in US

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1884

Question 17

Mechanization of labour 1870 procentage

Answer 17

80% US

50% GB

Question 18

Abolition of Corn Laws

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1846

Question 19

Cobden-Chevalier treaties

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1860-61 Anglo-FR free trade treaties

Question 20

Immigration from North-West Europe 1815-1865

Answer 20

10 mln

Question 21

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 21

1882

Question 22

Emma Lazarus quote

Answer 22

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free” - immigration

Question 23

German cultural impact on US

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Hamburgers, Easter bunny, brewery - pasteurization & Budweiser -1876 - hallmark for US beer

Question 24

Foran Act

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1885 - Ban of indenture for crossing the Atlantic

Question 25

Crop lien system

Answer 25

Fall of prices of cotton --> lower revenue combined with increased credit availability --> Sharecroppers and tenant farmers who did not own the land they worked obtained supplies and food on credit from local merchants. They held a lien on the cotton crop and the merchants and landowners were the first ones paid from its sale. What was left over went to the farmer.

Question 26

Edwin Chadwick's report

Answer 26

"The Sanitary conditions of the Labouring population" - 1842