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18 Cards in this Set
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Two big inventions of the later 1800s?
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Roller press and refrigerated train cars.
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Big 3 rich folks of the later 1800s? And what are their big money makers?
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Edison-power distribution
Rockefeller-oil refinery Carnegie- steel |
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What does Carnegie come up with?
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The "Gospel of Wealth", a philosophical book on rich people not leaving money to children.
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What was the first billion dollar company?
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US Steel
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This mechanized period of US history is also known as what?
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Gilded
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The average hourly wage working in Steel was what an hour? How many hours a week? Annual income?
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21.6 cents an hour.
54 hour weeks $490 a year |
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How many factory fatalities in 1912?
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25,000
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How many injuries in 1912?
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700,000
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How did people deal with the crappy working conditions?
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Strike.
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The first inter-state strike was what? How did it go?
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Great Railroad Strike of 1877 which failed due to strike-breakers who were often Chinese.
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What leads to the unfair anti-Chinese legislation in the US?
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Strike-breakers of Chinese descent during the Great Railroad Strike (which wasn't really their fault but whatever)
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What was the big goal of the National Labor Union?
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8 hour workday
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Who were the Knights of Labor?
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A labor union that instead of striking, the Knights promoted boycotts.
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What kills the Knights of Labor?
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The Haymarket Affair, which associated the unions with anarchists.
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What resurrects the union work?
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American Federation of Labor, a union OF unions
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Who was Samuel Gompers?
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The leader of the American Federation of Labor, and a cigar maker.
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What things kills the American Federation of Labor?
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Homestead Steel Strike
Pullman Strike |
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Who was Frick?
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Cut wages and raised rent of the Homestead Steel company.
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