What is a corporation ? Business owned by investors who buy shares of stock.
Key terms dealing with corporations? Capital Stock Stockholder dividend Money to invest Share in a corporation (partial ownership) Owner of stock (partial owner of a company) Payment to stockholder from a corporations profit
So why do you invest in a corporation? To make money – either through the price of your stock going up and then you sell it for a profit or through dividends.
Key terms dealing with railroads? network consolidate rebates pool System of connected lines When companies combine Discounts to large customers Several railroad companies divide up business and agree to charge high rates
What do we need to know about the steel industry? Leading company Leading individual Name of process for making cheap and strong steel U.S. Steel Andrew Carnegie Bessemer Process
Important individuals in the rise of big business? J.P. Morgan Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller Cornelius Vanderbilt Leading banker U.S. Steel (Steel Industry) Standard Oil (Oil Industry) Steamships and railroads
What do Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt all have in common? Started as poor people Became filthy rich Gave away most of their profits to projects benefiting society
Important terms for big business. Trust monopoly Free enterprise system Group of corporations run by a single board of directors. Company that controls all of an industry. Businesses that are owned by private citizens. Companies compete by making the nest products at the lowest price.
Inventors and inventions you need to know: Sleeping car telephone phonograph Light bulb Automated assembly line (allowed for mass production) George Pullman Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison Henry Ford
Knights of Labor Terence Powderly Very idealistic (create a perfect workplace all at once) Not for strikes Haymarket Riot brought about its end
American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers 1886 Union of skilled worker unions Baby steps to improve the workplace Supported strikes
Labor terms you need to know: strike injunction Scabs boycott Refusal to work Court order to go back to work Workers who replaced strikers (very unpopular) Refusal to buy a company’s goods
What was the importance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire tragedy? It led to safer working conditions in factories.
What factors made people leave their country and become immigrants? (Push Factors) No land Religious persecution Political persecution No jobs
What factors made people become immigrants to the U. S.? (Pull Factors) Cheap / free land Religious freedom Political freedom - democracy Jobs in factories Family already established in the U.S.
What are the theories of how immigrants assimilated or blended in with the American culture? Salad Bowl theory – people adopted much of the American culture while maintaining their own traditions. Melting Pot – Everyone adopted the exact same American culture.
Anti-Immigrant terms you need to know: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Quota xenophobia Stopped Chinese immigration Set the number of immigrants that could enter the country from a specific nation – favored Western European immigrants Fear of immigrants
Anti-Immigrant groups you need to know: Know-Nothing Party nativists Party against Catholic immigrants People against immigrants who they believed were taking their jobs
What was it called when people were given jobs based upon support rather than qualifications?
Spoils system
What are civil service jobs?
Government jobs which are not elected or part of the military.
How was the spoils system reformed?
The Civil Service Commission was formed. It was responsible for filling government jobs. People had to take the civil service exam to be eligible for jobs.
How were trusts and monopolies reformed?
The Sherman Antitrust Act forbade trusts although it was used against unions at first.
My political cartoons were aimed at reforming city governments. Who was I?
Thomas Nast
What were newspaper reporters who exposed corruption called?
muckrakers
I was a leading boss. Thomas Nast targeted me with his cartoons.
William “Boss” Tweed
I was a muckraker who targeted big businesses.
Ida Tarbell
My book How the Other Half Lives featuring photographs of city living conditions helped improve living conditions in tenements.
Jacob Riis
The Declaration of Sentiments was written at this women’s rights meeting in 1848.
Seneca Falls Convention
These two women led the National Women’s Suffrage Association – a group that wanted to amend the Constitution so women can vote.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What does suffrage mean?
The right to vote
What amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?
19 th Amendment
Who was known as the trustbusting president?
Teddy Roosevelt
What did Teddy Roosevelt think about trusts?
Some trusts were good and should be left alone while others were bad and should be broken up.
What was Teddy Roosevelt’s plan where all people should have an equal opportunity to succeed called?
Square deal
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union was against was problem of society?
The abuse of alcohol.
I was a leader of the W.C.T.U.
Frances Willard
I was a member of the temperance movement who went and destroyed saloons using a hatchet.
Carry Nation
What was the result of the temperance movement?
18 th Amendment (1919) which prohibited the sale of alcohol. The 21 st Amendment got rid of this amendment.
I was a muckraker who exposed the meatpacking industry with my novel The Jungle. The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed as a result of my work.
Upton Sinclair
I was known as the conservationist president.
Teddy Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot and John Muir were associated with this movement to save the environment.
conservation
I founded Tuskegee Institute. I accepted segregation and believed that by becoming educated African Americans could improve their lives.
Booker T. Washington
This organization worked for African American rights.
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Who was the leading African scientist who specialty was finding uses for peanuts and peanut products?
George Washington Carver
What leader urged African Americans to fight discrimination?
W.E.B. DuBois