Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
7 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Pacific Railway Act of 1862
|
-Government employs a pattern of land grants (government owns all the land so on either side of the railway the government keeps 1 square mile and then gives the rest to the railway→ benefits RR because they can sell it to settlers)
|
|
|
Credit Mobilier
|
(Under Grant Administration)- Government gave land owners money to develop RR and they just pocketed it
|
|
|
John D. Rockefeller
|
Horizontal Integration (owns oil pipelines)
gets RR rebates Owns his own storage places Oil Trust |
|
|
Carnegie
|
Vertical Integration
|
|
|
Adamson Act
|
8 hr day in RR industry
|
|
|
Keaton Owen Child Labor Act
|
children under 14 cannot work in interstate commerce factories
|
|
|
Mann Act
|
women across state lines for immoral purposes
|
