Module 8 Exam Review

Complete control of a product or business by one person or group

• Monopoly

• Trust

• Corporation

Ownership of businesses involved in each step of manufacturing process.

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

• Social Darwinism

An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

• Strike Breakers

• Labor Unions

• Settlement Houses

_____________________ led the American Federation of Labor, a union who limited membership to skilled workers only.  They fought for better working conditions

• Andrew Carnegie
• Leland Stanford
• Samuel Gompers
• Alexander Graham Bell

An 1890 law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restricted prices or trade between states.

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• 19th Amendment

• Chinese Exclusion Act

What is the definition of socialism?

• The idea that the means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned and regulated by the community as a whole.

• The idea that all free men over the age of 21 of good standing should have the right to vote.

• The idea that women should have equal political, social and economic rights as men.

• The idea that a country’s trade and industry should be controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

He/She was a union leader who later became the spokesperson for the Socialist Party of America.  

• a. Henry Bessemer
• b. Charles Darwin 
• c. Mary Harris Jones
• d.  Eugene Debs

Immigrants could not afford to live in apartments with high rent so they would live in these buildings

• tenements

• settlement houses

• ethnic neighborhoods

________________ is the term used to describe the wealthy that used ruthless business practices. 

• Industrial Giants
• Captains of Industry
• Robber Barons
• Union Leaders

_{Most strikes by unions in the late 1800s were unsuccessful mainly because}

• unions were unconstitutional

• strikes had never been used before to settle labor issues

• government supported business instead of workers

• strikers failed to use militant tactics