Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Tues., Sept. 15 Homework

ALL CLASSES: Read Chapter 14-3 and then identify the significance of each of the following terms / names: (Post your answers in your blog before the beginning of class.)

Andrew Carnegie: had practical management skills which eventually became widespread.
Social Darwinism: was used as a way to back up the laissez faire.
John D. Rockefeller: joined competing companies into one trust agreement.
Sherman Antitrust Act:made it illegal to form trusts that interfered with trading of states and or couintries.
Samuel Gompers:led the Cigar Makers Union to join band with other unions of craft.
American Federation of Labor (AFL):gompers is president. they focused on bargaining and management.
Eugene V. Debs: "The strike is the weapon of the opressed"
Industrial Workers of the World: Headed by William Haywood. "wobblies" were mainly hard labor workers.
Mary Harris Jones: supported the great strike of 1887 and was a women activist. "she fights their battles with a mothers love"