APUSH Period 6: Chapter 17

Steel workers unionize at Homestead mill, fight occurs between Union and state milita

Company controls all aspects of production from raw materials to finished goods

Bully all other companies into merging with you and build a monopoly

Small group of associates to hold stock from a group of combined firms, managing them as a single entity

Machines are used more than human labor in factories

Employers must eliminate all brain work from manual labor

Barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States

Thousands of railway workers walk off the job after wages are cut in 1877, rails stop completely

Against corporations and attempted to limit their power through rights for workers

The idea that people who work with their hands built the economy

Economic regulatory actions, crucial starting points for reform

Secret society of garment workers in Philadelphia, argued that accumulation of wealth must be checked

A society without a government

Anarchist meeting, fight with police breaks out, 8 convicted in these riots

Attempted to tackle issues that Grangers/Greenbacks had addressed earlier

Forced railroads to show public the price for railroads, stopped corporations from setting unfair prices

All jobs reserved for union members, kept out lower wage workers

Separated from Knights of Labor, became nation's leading voice for workers

Major steel producer, built his own fortune, steel monopoly

Chicago cattle dealer invented assembly line, revolutionizing manufacturing pioneered vertical integration

"King of Petroleum", made Standard Oil and created the first American monopoly

Wrote "Progress and Property", warned that Americans were too optimistic for railroads/manufacturing

Leader of Knights of Labor, warned against liquor, grassroot basis of labor activism

Led American Force of Labor, grew AFL to 2 million, popular among skilled craftsmen