APUSH Period 6: Chapter 17

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Steel workers unionize at Homestead mill, fight occurs between Union and state milita	Homestead Lockout
Company controls all aspects of production from raw materials to finished goods	Vertical Integration
Bully all other companies into merging with you and build a monopoly	Horizontal Integration
Small group of associates to hold stock from a group of combined firms, managing them as a single entity	Trust
Machines are used more than human labor in factories	Deskilling
Employers must eliminate all brain work from manual labor	Scientific Management
Barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States	Chinese Exclusion Act
Thousands of railway workers walk off the job after wages are cut in 1877, rails stop completely	Great Railroad Strike
Against corporations and attempted to limit their power through rights for workers	Greenback-Labor Party
The idea that people who work with their hands built the economy	Producerism
Economic regulatory actions, crucial starting points for reform	Granger Laws
Secret society of garment workers in Philadelphia, argued that accumulation of wealth must be checked	Knights of Labor

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A society without a government	Anarchism
Anarchist meeting, fight with police breaks out, 8 convicted in these riots	Haymarket Square
Attempted to tackle issues that Grangers/Greenbacks had addressed earlier	Farmer's Alliance
Forced railroads to show public the price for railroads, stopped corporations from setting unfair prices	Interstate Commerce Act
All jobs reserved for union members, kept out lower wage workers	Closed Shop
Separated from Knights of Labor, became nation's leading voice for workers	American Federation of Labor
Major steel producer, built his own fortune, steel monopoly	Andrew Carnegie
Chicago cattle dealer invented assembly line, revolutionizing manufacturing pioneered vertical integration	Gustavus Swift
"King of Petroleum", made Standard Oil and created the first American monopoly	John D. Rockefeller
Wrote "Progress and Property", warned that Americans were too optimistic for railroads/manufacturing	Henry George
Leader of Knights of Labor, warned against liquor, grassroot basis of labor activism	Terrence Powderly
Led American Force of Labor, grew AFL to 2 million, popular among skilled craftsmen	Samuel Gompers