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Politics were heavily dominated by one party
Business activity expanded and contracted frequently
The tariff issue was finally resolved
The presidents were very effective and active leaders
Labor unions gained new rights for skilled and unskilled workers
The phonograph
The incandescent light bulb
AC Current
The telephone
The typewiter
Electricity
Public Water Systems
Skyscrapers
Telephones
The Bessemer Process
Railroads
The manufacture of steel
Communication
The production of electricity
Purifying potable water
It effectively regulated businesses of the time
It created a model for future federal regulatory commissions.
It hindered the success of labor unions
It showed the government was not laissez-faire
It finally showed a shift in the attitude of the government towards businesses
Prohibition of rebates to favored customers to the granting of land subsidies
Granting of land subsidies to the prohibition of rebates to favored customers
Granting of land subsidies to the effective regulation of trusts
The effective regulation of trusts to the prohibiton of rebates to favored customers
Prohibition of rebates to favored customers to the effective regulation of trusts
Expand their control over production and distribution as well as manufacturing
Expand their control over competitors
Dominate the market and eliminate all competition
Refuse to hire union members
Break strikes by hiring scabs
Rockefeller's domination of the market
New government regulation
Labor unions
Vertical integration
Economic competition
Theological doctrine of "design"
Accuracy of the old testament
Reality of change in the world
Uniqueness of man in nature
The concept of the deserving poor in the work force
Created monopolies
Used political machines to control the elections
Drained the country of its natural resources
Were ruthless competitors who cheated their investors and exploited their workers
Paid their workers meager wages
The corrupt political system could still be reformed
Anyone could rise from rags to riches with a little luck and hard work
Society's wealth should be distributed more evenly
The impoverished need help from the wealthy
Successful industrialists were trustees for society’s wealth
How the Other Half Lives
The Gospel of Wealth
Common Sense
A Century of Dishonor
Turner's Thesis
An organization of businesses expand their control over production and distribution as well as manufacturing
A legal device to circumvent state laws against interstate corporations
A collection of businesses used to eliminate economic competition
A monopoly used to circumvent the law
A combination of companies that did not officially merge
The idea of Social Darwinism
Claims that the government was too laissez-faire
The business monopolies of Rockefeller and other business men
The use of stockholding trusts to creating business oligopolies
The increasing power of labor unions
Was used to regulate labor unions more than trusts
Had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations
It was a response to the use of stockholding trusts to create business oligopolies
This will prove very effective under Roosevelt's administration
Showed the shift in attitude of the government towards businesses
To actively end a longheld laissez-faire attitude of America
To restrain interstate trade or commerce
Non-existent because it was so innefective
To regulate business trusts
To curb labor unions
In "Lowell" system mills
In mines
In the factories
On their parents’ farms
In hazardous conditions
Their attack on traditional republicanism
Force was used by business leaders making strikes a failure
Ethnic divisions within the labor force
Percieved anarchist element in the Haymarket affair
They had no real political agenda
Western and southern farmers in order to create a political voice.
Skilled and unskilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains.
Skilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains.
Silverites in order to create inflation.
Unskilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains.
Led more violent stikes
Had a political agenda
Had greater success in their attempts for reform
Endorsed a policy of seeking more realistic economic gains
Welcomed all skilled and unskilled workers, blacks and women
The Wobblies
The Knights of Labor
The American Federation of Labor
The Sons of Liberty
The National Labor Union
Was involved in a number of nonviolent strikes
Was involved in a number of violent strikes
Helped women gain new rights
Worked hard to empower immigrants
Won improved conditions for skilled und unskilled workers
Owners appealed to courts for court orders against unions
Union gains were limited for 30 years
The public associated this act with labor violence
The government began preventing labor unrest with military intervention
Skilled workers abandoned the Knights of Labor for the American Federation of Labor
A rally for safer working conditions
Wages being slashed with railroad workers
Frick's cutting of wages while the owner was in Europe
Pullman’s cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents
The rally for an eight hour workday by many workers
Western and Southern Farmers
Silverites
Democrats
Northern and Eastern Merchants
Union Members
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