History Quarter 1 Test

Growth of American Cities led to changes in the rights of women

Three questions- what to produce, how to make it, and whoam am I going to sell it to. Three types of economy- traditional, mixed, and command

eleminated competition by forming monoplies ( held a monoply over other businessess)

Monopolistic practices were harmful to small business

the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voter or legislature

The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures

the right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office

The Jungle ( Upton Sinclair)

Economic competition is innefficent and wasteful

Competed with Americans for jobs as unskilled laborers

Populist wanted to protect the farmers-form coops- regulate railroad companies- more government help

to improve this society- a series of responses

Growth of American Industry

punishing a striker or worker by placing them on a do not hire list

survival of the fittest in society- the weak will be consumed

President McKinely & John Hay- Allowed anybody to trade with china

Prevent large corporations from eliminating their competition.

tried to improve their society- higher involvement of government

Gross Domestic Product- total output of a country- total value of all goods and services that a country produces

Growth of the need for oil coincides with economic expansion

Creator of the refrigerated rail car- modernized the meat packet industry

hands off- no government intervention

higher costs and more restrictions

higher tarriffs increase taxes on imported goods. Increased foreign companies costs which would benefit American workers

By the Populist movement and Forming coop

State passed laws that enforced discrimination

didn't like them and people born in America are better- competing for resources

journalist that covers corruption and social class abuse

1865; 35000- 1900-200,000

Union Pacific and Central Pacific

Robber Barons- capitalist that would prey upon the poor Captain of Industries- Bosses that pushed the edges of industry

On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. ... The Haymarket Riot was viewed a setback for the organized labor movement in America, which was fighting for such rights as the eight-hour workday.

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 started on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) cutting wages of workers for the third time in a year. Striking workers would not allow any of the trains, mainly freight trains, to roll until this third wage cut was revoked.

John D. Rockefeller, in full John Davison Rockefeller, (born July 8, 1839, Richford, New York, U.S.—died May 23, 1937, Ormond Beach, Florida), American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.

Railroad tycoon, steamship operator, controlled Hudson River

Jay Gould- one of the most notoriously corrupt railroad owners

Invented individual brake systems for indiidual cars Helped develop alternating current

Nationwide railroad strike in the US- May 11-July 20, 1894 Federal troops to crush the strike and dozens were killed in violent clashes in the streets of Chicago

Collective froup of workers that fight for the improvements of worker's rights

Commuism- no private poreprty free rights for both men and women, no social classes Capitalism- survival of littlist- based on performence and competition

Invisible hand controls market- supply and demand