| Term | Definition |
|---|
| credit mobiler | construction company formed in 1864, used to fraudulently skim off railroad profits for themselves |
| Munn v. Illinois | 1877, Supreme Court upheld states' regulation of railroads for benefit of citizens |
| Interstate Commerce Act | 1877, fed gov. right to supervise railroad activities, createde Interstate Commerce Comission |
| Panic of 1893 | depression brought on by railroad collapse |
| Andrew Carnegie | created largest business in world, vertical/horizontal integration |
| John D. Rockefeller | created Standard Oil Company trust |
| vertical integration | buying up suppliers and distribution |
| horizontal integration | buying up competitors |
| social darwinism | survival of fittest in economy |
| gospel of worship | - |
| american federation of labor | alliance of trade and craft unions, established in 1886 |
| Samuel Gompers | - |
| IWW | - |
| Eugene V. Debs | - |
| "Robber Barons" | rich business that made money by ripping off everyone else |
| Standard Oil Company | trust created by Rockefeller |
| United States Steel | company created by Carnegie |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | 1890, law that allowed fed gov to break up monopolies |
| labor unions | union of workers to get better rights, pay, ect |
| Socialism | - |
| haymarket affair | - |
| homestead strike | - |
| social gospel | Christians should improve life of poor |
| settlement houses | community center providing assistance to neighborhood residents particulary immigrants in slum neighborhood |
| Jane Addams | - |
| the Gilded Age | - |
| political machines | - |
| graft | - |
| Boss Tweed | - |
| patronage | - |
| civil service | - |
| James A. Garfield | - |
| Chester A. Arthur | - |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | - |
| Tammany Hall | - |
| McKinley Tariff | - |
| John Dewey | - |
| Horace Mann | - |
| mandatory school attendence laws | - |
| Booker T. Washington | - |
| W.E.B. DuBois | - |
| Niagra Movement | - |
| NAACP | - |
| poll tax | - |
| grandfather clause | - |
| Jim Crow laws | - |
| segregation | - |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | - |
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