6B - Industrialization

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What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?

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New methods of making steel

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What did industrial consolidation and trusts reduce during the 1800s?

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Competition

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Who organized the American Federation of Labor?

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Samuel Gompers

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Who organized the Industrial Workers of the World?

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radical unionists and socialists

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What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act?

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to lower excessive railroad rates

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Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, involves

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buying out raw material producers and distributors.

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The Pendleton Civil Service Act required

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applicants for government jobs to pass examinations.

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The statement on the wall says, "This is the Senate, of the Monopolists, by the Monopolists, for the Monopolists." The cartoonist's message is that the U.S. Senate

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is controlled by monopolists

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In the late 1800s, collective bargaining was a technique used to 

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win workers’ rights.