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Industrial Titans: Ruthless Tactics and Worker Unions in the New Industrial Age

Explore the rise of powerful industrialists, their ruthless business tactics, and the formation of trade and craft unions. Learn about key figures, such as labor leaders and inventors, and the impact of laws and inventions during this transformative era.

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Industrial Titans: Ruthless Tactics and Worker Unions in the New Industrial Age

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  1. Chapter 6 A New Industrial Age Visual Vocabulary 1st

  2. 1. Term given to powerful industrialists because many felt that their business tactics were ruthless.

  3. 2. An alliance of trade and craft unions, formed in 1886.

  4. 3. A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869.

  5. 4. Labor leader that supported the Great Strike of 1877 and later organized for the United Mine Workers of America; also influenced many child labor laws.

  6. 5. Labor leader that attempted to include both skilled and unskilled laborers in a specific industry-The American Railway Union.

  7. 6. A Scottish immigrant; created a giant steel corporation and credited hard work, shrewd investments, and innovative business practices.

  8. 7. A law, enacted in 1887, that established the federal government’s right to supervise railroad activities and created a five member Interstate Commerce Commission to do so.

  9. 8. Along with Thomas Watson, this man unveiled the invention of the telephone in 1876.

  10. 9. An economic and social philosophy-supposedly based on biologist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection-holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest.

  11. 10.A cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850.

  12. 11. This man perfected the incandescent light bulb in 1876 and established the world’s first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

  13. 12. The head of the Standard Oil Corporation; reaped huge profits by paying his employees extremely low wages and driving his competitors out of business.

  14. 13. A group of workers that unite to improve working conditions.

  15. 14. President of the American Federation of Labor; focused on collective bargaining, or negotiation between representatives of labor and management.

  16. 15. A law, enacted in 1890, that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade.

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