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15 Cards in this Set
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New York Charity Organization
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Josephine Lowell, sent visitors to tenements, moral deficiencies lay at root of poverty
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Interstate Commerce Act
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1887, created Interstate Commerce Commission, regulate interstate trade and railroad rates
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Hepburn Act
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1906, strengthened ICC by allowing it to set rates
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Sherman AntiTrust Act
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1890, outlawed trusts, prohibited all consolidates and contracts that restrained interstate trade, failed to define "trust" and "restraint of trade" clearly
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Supreme Court vs EC Knight Company
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1895, regarding sugar Knight company, defined manufacturing as a local concern (intrastate) while commerce was interstate.
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National Labor Union
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Founded by William Slyvis, lower 8-hour workday, end convict labor, restrict immigration, welcomed iron workers, ended when Slyvis died
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Knights of Labor
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Founded by Powderly, welcomed all wage earners, equal wages for women, idealistic, disapproved of strikes, lost power from Haymarket Riot and breaking off of craft unions into AFL
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American Federation of Labor
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Founded by Gompers, welcomed all skilled workers, more realistic, short-term goals of higher wages and lower work hours.
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Railroad Strike
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1877, caused by 1873 stock market crash, wage cuts led to strikes everywhere, Pinkerton agents sent in, yellow-dog contracts, US army came in
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Haymarket Riot
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1886, protest rally, bomb thrown, 4 demonstrators killed, animosity towards labor unions intensifies
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Pullman Strike
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1894, cut wages in Pullman community without lowering rent, strike led by Debs, injunctions passed by General Managers' Association, strike crushed
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In re Debs case
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1895 legalized use of injunctions against labor unions
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Andrew Carnegie, William Sumner, Lester Ward, Henry George, Edward Bellamy
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Carnegie & Sumner - Conservative Social Darwinists: survival of the fittest, natural laws
Ward, George, Bellamy - government regulation, tax reform, cooperative commonwealth |
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New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
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Robert Harley, home visitations, bad habits from parents
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New York Children's Aid Society
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Charles Brace, sweep children off the streets into farmhands
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