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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

A tragedy at this NY City factory would leave over 100 women dead and the public calling for labor reforms?

Greater efficiency, economy of sale, manager system, productivity studies

Name one of the advantages that bigger businesses have over smaller businesses?

Hotario Alger

Name the author of the popular dime novel books which described successful adventures and rags to riches stories?

George Eastman

Name the inventor who would perfect a cheap personal camera for the masses?

Chicago

Name the place where a bomb exploded during a labor meeting killing several people in 1886?

Company Towns

Pullman, Illinois is a perfect example of what type of business situation?

American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers would become the leader of this union which chose to allow only skilled laborers to its membership?

Assembly line

Term that describes the factories where labor conditions included long hours and sometimes dangerous conditions?

Robber Barons

The term refers to the ultra wealthy of the late 1800's and refers to the negative image many people had of the wealthy and their business practices?

Injunctions

This alternative method involved owners getting a court order to prevent work stoppages?

Interstate Commerce Act

This federal law was passed in an attempt to regulate the activities of the railroads?

Knights of Labor

This first major labor union allowed all types of labor to join?

Blacklists

This is a method used by owners to keep troublesome workers from being employed?

Monopoly

This is a type of business that controls the supply of a product?

Corporations

This is a type of business that has many owners through the process of selling stock to investors.

Lockouts

This is another owner method where they simply closed the factory rather than give in to worker demands?

Iron Horse

This is another term for a train?

Collective Bargaining

This is the power of workers to negotiate with their employer as a group rather than as individuals?

Philanthropy

This is the practice of giving away large sums of money to charitable causes?

Social Darwinism

This is the theory that only the best businesses will survive while weaker ones are eliminated?

Merger

This is when one business joins with another to form a larger company.

Trust

This is when several businesses act as if they are one in order to control the supply and price?

Eugene Victor Debs

This labor leader would go to prison during the Pullman Strike of 1894 and leaves prison as a socialist reformer?

Sherman antitrust act

This law was eventually passed as a way of regulating the activities of big business?

Labor Unions

This main weapon of the labor movement involved workers refusing to work?

Standard Oil Company

What business did John D. Rockefeller control?

Carnegie Steel

What business made Andrew Carnegie one of the world's wealthiest men?

Cornelius Vanderbuilt

What famous business man made the family fortune in railroads?

Nicola Tesla

What inventor patented the AC power system we use today?

Laissez-faire government

What type of government policies encouraged business growth in the late 1800's?

Alexander Graham Bell

Who invented the telephone?

Thomas Edison

Who perfected the electric light bulb?